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Any decision may be made impulsively or may mature after weighing up a range of possibilities. Deciding what is the right or acceptable thing to do in a situation open to multiple solutions implies in the simplest cases choosing between two or more alternatives, one of which is the best.
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Peppoloni, S., Di Capua, G. (2022). Ethical Problems and Dilemmas in the Geosciences. In: Geoethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98044-3_6
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