Question

Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Viet Nam's national police, walked up and shot a prisoner in the head. His reason: The prisoner, 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.

Answer 1

Utilitarianism.

Step-by-step explanation:

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.