True/False: According to duty-based ethics, on deciding the morality of an act, you consider the perspective of the doer and the recipient.

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In duty-based ethics, what makes an action morally right is whether it aligns with a duty or moral principle, not what happens as a result. To judge an act, you look at the obligations guiding the agent (the doer) and the rights or dignity of others involved (the recipient). This framework asks you to act from a sense of duty and to treat people as ends in themselves, not merely as means to an end. That dual consideration means you assess whether the action respects the doer’s duties and whether it upholds the recipient’s autonomy and worth. If your chosen action could be willed as a universal rule and would respect everyone’s humanity, it is morally sound. Because this approach explicitly centers on duties and the treatment of others as moral agents, it makes sense that you consider both the perspective of the doer and the recipient.