ethical question
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈɛθɪkəl ˈkwɛsʧən/
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cuestión ética
- The committee debated an ethical question regarding animal testing in scientific research.
- raise ethical questions
- ethical questions arise
- serious ethical questions
And these raise ethical questions for us.
- And these raise ethical questions for us.
- I can't wait till the day where AI systems exhibit consciousness because it'll truly be some of the hardest ethical questions of what we do with that.
- And all the difficult ethical questions that humans raise will just it'll leave it up to us to figure it out.
Examples
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Beyond this, situations will arise where there are ethical questions about the research.
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Let's look, then, at a few of the ethical questions that need to be asked.
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And these raise ethical questions for us.
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OK, And I guess the ethical question is here, like, how do we make such things now?
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I understand, but it's an ethical question.
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Again, there might be some ethical questions.
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We're dealing with an ethical question.
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These are hard ethical questions and I raise them for your further consideration.
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And that is a really difficult, I think ethical question that has yet to be addressed on a national level.
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Therefore, it is important for both military and nonmilitary social workers to explore these ethical questions.
Academic text (2010)
How Serious
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10
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a question involving moral principles' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ethical' (relating to moral principles) with 'question' (an issue or matter under consideration). This simple adjective+noun compositional pattern is common across languages and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase ethical question, with ethical meaning about 'right' and 'wrong' and question meaning a choice or problem, creates the image of a person at a crossroads or holding a scale, trying to decide what to do. So an ethical question is a problem where you must choose what is 'right' or 'wrong'.