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.
-According to the standard theory, whistleblowing is morally required when
A) considerable harm will occur to the public.
B) internal procedures have not been effective.
C) the whistleblower has reasonable and convincing evidence.
D) all of the above

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The standard theory of whistleblowing suggests that it is morally required when there is considerable harm to the public, internal procedures have failed, and the whistleblower has reasonable evidence.