Both the priority view and the parallel view agree that there are ordinary moral rules that apply to professionals and that there are "special" rules that also apply.

These views differ on what the relationship is between the ordinary rules and the special rules (i.e., between the two sheets of ethics rules that might be given to professionals).

The Priority View

"[T]here may well be special rules which govern professionals, and which impose duties inconsistent with duties imposed on everybody in ordinary life. But the sole justification for imposing such special duties is that, judged by the norms of ordinary morality," it would be better.

(The ethics sheets for professionals are derived by applying the obligations listed on the universal sheet.)

The Parallel View

"[T]here are moral obligations which derive not from ordinary morality but from the nature of the professions."

(The ethics sheets for professionals are written up independently of the sheet of universal rules.)