Ethics & Law · single question
Community water fluoridation creates a classic conflict between which two ethical principles?
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Correct answer: A. Beneficence and autonomy
- A. Correct. Fluoridation benefits the community (beneficence) but removes individual choice (autonomy), the central tension.
- B. Veracity (truth-telling) is not the core fluoridation conflict.
- C. These are not the principles classically in tension for fluoridation.
- D. Veracity is not the issue here.