Table 1 Grill and Dawson’s pluralist ethical framework
1.Identification:Identify relevant alternatives.
2. Distinguishing:Distinguish relevant empirical differences between alternatives, including contingencies.
3. Ranking:Rank, as far as possible, alternatives from best to worst.
4. Evaluation:Make explicit, as far as possible, in what sense some alternatives are better than others.
5. Documentation:Submit the result of the evaluation to a designated oversight institution.
  • From Grill and Dawson,19 pp. 293–294.