Is it Moral? Yes, No, . 2-3 pages

The Situation:

You
have suspected for a long time that your supervisor has been regularly
taking home supplies bought by your employer, but which are not
immediately missed since they are rarely used by the company. One day,
your supervisor tells you that it is alright for you to start taking
home these supplies, because your employer will never miss them.

Part
1: Pretend that you are a Moral Relativist and all of your reasoning is
based on the tenets of Moral Relativism. Are you, as an employee, going
to follow your supervisor’s lead and to start taking home the supplies
you want? Explain why or why not.

o You will need to discuss if
“taking things that belong to others” is morally right, wrong, or just a
personal opinion. And, keep in mind that for Part 1, you are trying to
think like a Moral Relativist.

Part 2: Now, pretend that you are
the owner of the company who actually purchased the supplies that have
been going missing. Using Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, how would you
explain to your thieving employees that they are not demonstrating
“virtuous living” (which means rationally choosing the “just right”
moment of no excess or deficiency in the Virtue and consciously trying
to do everything as excellently as you can)?

o Try not to fire
your employees when you provide all of the details in your explanation,
since, as a follower of Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, it would be more
rational to rehabilitate them and to teach them to develop the habit of
living virtuous lives.

For both parts, it will probably be
necessary to discuss the relationship between happiness and morality (if
there is one). Also, both parts together should end up being a single
essay between 500 and 800 words, and you should be following standard
grammatical rules and APA formatting. Also, please do not use anything
other than your textbook as a source for this paper.

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