Tim is the bookkeeper for a social services agency. The new agency director is turning in reimbursement requests for large amounts of money without providing receipts. Tim strongly suspects these amounts are exaggerated. He points out tactfully that receipts are required, and the director agrees to supply them. Soon after, Tim discovers that the director has given him a raise, and the undocumented claims continue.

When Tim thinks about it, he knows the right thing to do is to report his suspicions. He is employing the

a. egoism principle.

b. utility principle.

c. principle of duties.

d. principle of virtues.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?