- Communicative Objective: Develop the ability to explore ethically complex and abstract questions, weigh competing principles, consider unintended consequences, and articulate a balanced position without oversimplification.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- The ethical difficulty arises from the fact that protecting one legitimate interest may inevitably restrict another.
- However desirable the outcome may appear, it cannot automatically justify every means used to achieve it.
- What makes the issue particularly difficult is the absence of a clear boundary between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
- Had the decision affected only those who explicitly consented to it, the ethical implications would have been considerably different.
- Any defensible position must therefore take into account not only immediate benefits but also questions of fairness, autonomy, and accountability.
- Grammar Focus: Concessive inversion with however, third conditional inversion, cleft sentences, correlative structures with not only…but also, and complex modal expressions of ethical necessity.
- Vocabulary Focus: legitimate, autonomy, accountability, defensible, consent
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