Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Viet Nam's national police, walked up and shot a prisoner in the head. His reason: The pri
soner, a Viet Cong lieutenant, had just murdered a South Vietnamese colonel, his wife and their six children. Assuming this is out of one's moral character, the __________ theory of ethics applies here.
The utiliritarianism is an theory that asserts that you have to do what benefits the greatest number of people. If you kill someone that is a danger to society in order to protect other people, you will be doing what is ethic in that situation.
