A restaurant has installed microphones at its tables to secretly record customer reactions to menu items so that the restaurant owner can know which entrees to raise prices on. Under which method of ethical reasoning is this approach considered ethical?
A) Utility
B) Justice
C) Rights
D) Both A and B.
E) It would not be considered ethical under any ethical reasoning framework.

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This approach would not be considered ethical under any ethical reasoning framework because it involves secretly recording customers without their consent, violating their right to privacy and potentially causing harm, which is against principles of utility, justice, and rights.

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