Is situation ethics bad?

What is one bad thing about it?

it excludes most universal moral truths

What exactly does this do?

By doing this it seems to remove any possibility of guaranteeing universal human rights, and satisfying human needs for a useful ethical framework for human behaviour.

How is it not clear on what ‘love’ means?

Although the notion of love used in situation ethics seems attractive, it's pretty vague and can be interpreted in many ways.

How is it difficult to implement?

Situation ethics seems to be little more than a form of act consequentialism, in that a person can only choose the right thing to do if they consider all the consequences of their possible action, and all the people who may be affected.

What does it lack?

• Situation ethics produces a lack of consistency from one situation to the next

• It may be both easier, and more just and loving, to treat similar situations similarly - thus situation ethics should not be treated as a free-for-all, but should look for precedents while continuing to reject rigid ethical rules

How can it approve of ‘evil’ acts?

Situation ethics permits people to commit ‘evil’ actions if there is a greater good to come of it. If it is done out of agape love, then it is morally acceptable to commit such acts in the eyes of Fletcher and Situation ethics