Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing

Multiple Choice

Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing
Davis presents the standard theory of whistleblowing and what constitutes circumstances in which whistleblowing is morally required of an employee. Three paradoxes follow from the standard theory (of burden, of missing harm, of failure) , to which Davis responds with a complicity theory that avoids all of them. He uses the example of the Challenger in demonstrating a test of the latter.
-Advantages of a complicity theory over the standard theory of whistleblowing include

A) moral complicity itself presupposes moral wrongdoing.
B) complicity demands more than the ability to prevent harm.
C) emphasizing the prevention of harm over being complicit in the harm.
D) both a and b