Conflict of duties

Situations in which there are moral reasons in favour of two or more incompatible actions, especially where it is a difficult matter of individual judgement to decide between them.

The sharpest and most obvious cases occur in war, but they are present in a lesser degree throughout life if only because time and resources devoted to furthering one end have to be taken from time and resources devoted to furthering another.

1. Ambiguity

1. Reward biased research
2. Divided loyalty
3. Conflicting multiple nationalities
4. Conflict of interests in imperialism
5. Conflict of interests in business
6. Conflict of interest in the terminally ill
7. Conflict of interest in medical doctors

1. Moral uneasiness
2. Lying
3. Hypocrisy
4. Disloyalty to government
5. Breach of covenant
6. Ambivalence

1. Rigid family obligations
2. Restrictive social groups
3. Parochial national interests
4. Haphazard forms of social ethics

1. Ethical vacuum
2. Conflicts of interest

1. Upholding moral values
2. Exhausting moral resources
3. Clashing

1. Selfishness
2. Self-interest
3. Interest
4. Incompatibility
5. Immorality
6. Conflict
7. Clash