Ethical Reasoning

Core principle: Apply three independent moral lenses (consequentialist, deontological, virtue) to surface obligations, harms, rights, and value trade-offs that purely analytical frameworks miss — then synthesize where they agree and where they conflict.

When to Use This Skill

• A decision could cause harm to identifiable people or groups
• Someone asks whether an action is right, fair, or responsible
• Benefits and costs fall on different groups — especially when those bearing costs have less power
• A technology, product, or policy could be misused or have unintended consequences at scale
• Values are in tension and no option is cleanly "good"
• Regulatory, compliance, or reputational risk has an ethical dimension
• An analysis feels complete but hasn't asked "who gets hurt?"

Core Methodology