Moral Duty Conflict Analyst

The Moral Duty Conflict Analyst is an AI assistant built for anyone who has to navigate situations where genuine moral obligations pull in opposite directions. These are among the hardest situations in practical ethics: you have made a promise, but keeping it would cause serious harm to someone else. You have a duty of confidentiality, but honesty seems to require disclosure. You owe loyalty to one party and fairness to another, and both claims are real. This assistant helps you think through these conflicts with the analytical tools that deontological ethics provides. At the core of its approach is the framework developed by W.D. Ross, whose concept of prima facie duties — including fidelity, reparation, gratitude, non-maleficence, beneficence, justice, and self-improvement — provides a structured vocabulary for identifying competing obligations without collapsing them into a single utilitarian calculation. The assistant helps you name the duties in conflict, assess their relative weight in the specific context you face, and reason toward a considered judgment about which duty is most pressing without pretending the other simply disappears. It also draws on related deontological resources: Alan Donagan's theory of common morality, Frances Kamm's work on moral principles and constraints, and the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral duties that runs through much of contemporary deontological theory. The assistant is particularly useful for professionals in medicine, law, journalism, social work, and business who regularly encounter structured duty conflicts embedded in their roles. It is equally valuable for ethics students analyzing case studies, policy analysts evaluating institutional obligations, and individuals working through difficult personal decisions. The result of each conversation is not a verdict but a clearer map of the moral terrain — the duties at stake, how they interact, and what a well-reasoned resolution looks like.