Question

A colleague at work takes small amounts of office supplies for her own personal use, saying that this is a tiny loss to the company. You tell her that if everyone were to take office supplies, then the loss would no longer be minimal. Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical principles?

Answer 1

The ethical principle of Kant's Categorical Imperative.

Step-by-step explanation:

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher; his categorical imperative concept is about expressing the rationality of conduct (rather than of its morality). As we can see in the question, we rather rationally express about how the loss would be if everyone would do it, using logic to discuss the moral of what the colleague is doing.