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[...] The latter was established with the aim of respecting a certain ethics. We can take the example of doctors, who are subject to a deontological code. This can be manifested by the prohibition on revealing the health status of one of their patients, for example. It is therefore a set of laws that protects both the patient and the practitioner. The doctor must apply this text of laws in order to do what is right. Now, to know what is right, he refers to this deontological code. [...]
[...] Subject: Physiotherapist at the Centre Claude Robillard in Montreal: Should he report an athlete who lies about his obvious doping? Answer: Introduction What is morality? In this sense, morality leads us to respect a set of rules, laws to apply because necessary for the good functioning of a living together. However, is morality so objective? In fact, certain moral cases lead us to adjust our values sometimes. It is, for example, more difficult to denounce the crime of a close relative than that of a stranger. [...]
[...] It is therefore not ethically acceptable that this athlete is not denounced, on the one hand because the doctor's deontological code prohibits it, and on the other hand because it is unfair to the other athletes. The response of utilitarianism According to the thinker Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism, morality can be defined as 'lthe greatest happiness of the greatest number ». It is an agreed-upon understanding of what should be done and our duties. In addition to a moral value, utilitarianism implies a legal dimension, to allow for coexistence. [...]
[...] The doctor, by protecting his deontological code, must denounce this patient. Indeed, not only because his deontological code imposes it, but also because it is more just for others. In a concern for equality, the athlete must be denounced In this concrete example, the physiotherapist dedicates an important part of his professional life to this athlete. In fact, this athlete has an injury that worsens due to his doping. In the first place, it would be more egalitarian, and more just, for the physiotherapist to dedicate time to all these patients, and not only to his patient with whom he has created a bond. [...]
[...] Conclusion In the end, ethics involves us in this concrete case to denounce the athlete. In fact, his deontological code obliges him to do so and, in a concern for equality, he must denounce him. After this case study, the path of deontology seems to be ethical and on the side of justice, and consequentialism more on the side of morality, more subjective. A third way is offered to the doctor: that of preventing the athlete from the risks he runs and using his proximity with his patient to stop doping. [...]
