These checks are often used by employers as a means of judging a job candidate's past mistakes, character, and fitness, and to identify potential hiring risks for safety and security reasons. Background checks are also used to thoroughly investigate potential government employees in order to be given a security clearance.
Situational ethics is a form of consequentialism, though distinct from utilitarianism in that the latter's aim is the greatest good for the greatest number, while situational ethics focuses on creating the greatest amount of love.
Rights ethics is an answer to the meta-ethical question of what normative ethics is concerned with (Meta-ethics also includes a group of questions about how ethics comes to be known, true, etc. which is not directly addressed by rights ethics). 1  Rights ethics holds that normative ethics is concerned with rights.