Read Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues, Case 1, p. 173 and compose an 800-word written analysis in which you identify the moral issue(s) and the parties involved. Take a balanced moral position offering a recommendation or a policy resolution. Draw on three approaches to ethics including utility and two of the following: duty, rights, virtue, or care. Click here to see the grading rubric for this assignment.

CASE 1: "Virtual child pornography" is the term given to video depictions of child-child or child-adult sexual activity in which the "participants" are not actual children but realistic computer-generated images of children. The Federal Child Pornography Prevention Act banned this kind of pornography, but in April 2002 the U.S Supreme Court declared the ban unconstitutional. (The Court upheld the section of the law that bans pornographic depictions of actual children, however.) Evaluate virtual child pornography from an ethical standpoint.

If you have chosen the service activity analysis option, the questions are the same and the assignment will be assessed for depth, breadth, and judgment. The assignment will also be assessed by taking into consideration the description of the service activity. You may proceed with the service activity analysis option only if you have received prior approval by the instructor. Taking care to identify the moral issue(s) and the parties involved, take a balanced moral position offering a recommendation or a policy resolution. Please draw on three approaches to ethics including utility and two of the following: duty, rights, virtue, or care.