| There is a special morality | There is no special morality | |
| Ordinary morality applies | priority
view and parallel view | ordinary
ethics suffices for professionals |
| Ordinary morality does not apply | professional relativism | nihilism (no moral constraints) |
| Professional Relativism: | Professionals are bound by their own morality but not by "ordinary" morality which applies to the rest of us. |
| Ordinary ethics suffices: | Professionals are bound by the same moral principles (no more, no less) that rest of us are. |
| Nihilism: | Professionals are not bound by morality at all; they are beyond morality. (And maybe the rest of us are too.) |
| Priority view: | Goldman |
| Parallel view: | Ellin |