The elements of life that feminist ethics emphasizes is to focus on personal relationships as well as being ok with allowing yourself to make judgements based on emotions not just solely on reasoning. Feminist theory not only says it is ok to use emotion or even ties that you have with a person to make a judgement but also encourages it. There are levels to it though just as there are levels and wide ranges of other types of ethics. One should strike a balance between ethics of care and ethics of justice. The ethics of justice is the the decision making be made by looking at whether things are fair or overall just, which basically tells you to use reason to make a decision. The ethics of care is making decisions based on how the outcome could affect others or make the best decision for the overall best outcome for everyone involved. Within the text there is a great quote that states, “It is clear, I think, that the best moral theory has too…harmonize justice and care.”

I think there are situations in which impartiality is important in moral reasoning but they may be far and few in between. I think the biggest struggle with this is because if we are put into a situation where we are to make a decision based on two people we usually already have some kind of tie to at least one of the people involved if not all of the people involved. It is difficult to be impartial when you will usually always give the benefit of the doubt to those you know. As the text puts it, “typically we would not think of treating our spouse the same way we treat a store clerk or a bus driver.” What I can think of when it’s important is possibly when you know someone is “bad.” Impartiality says that all persons are created equal and should be treated accordingly.

I think that if you know someone has done something wrong or has wronged you in some type of way then you wont be treating that person the same way you would treat any random stranger on the street. I think that impartiality is also important in the workplace because that is somewhere that everyone should be treated justly and equally as well. I believe there will always be a lot more rejection of impartiality than the following of partiality because it is just how we are as humans. It is in our human nature to gravitate to something or someone who is familiar to us and treat them differently if not better than someone that we do not know.