Moral and ethical issues are intimately tangled to philosophical and religious concepts, especially the

ones we have been brought up upon (Christianism, Buddhism, etc.). When we talk about ethical
dilemmas, we are also talking about how our religious believes apply towards making those decisions
from the perspective of the good and the bad.
Those two subjects (ethic and religion) cannot be separated; when it comes to the moment to decide
whether our actions were ethical, we found ourselves juggling with many concepts at the same time and
one of them is retribution from a higher entity. Id say that the biggest contributor to the final decision
in any disjunctive situation is the fear to be punished for making a bad choice.
Throughout life, we are faced with dilemmas of different kinds; some are easy to decide, others are very
hard. We measure the situation that we are in, with the tools that we have at the moment; sometimes
we value the absolutes because there is no other option or exit, sometimes we try to maximize the good
out of the situation, and other times you value the virtues above other concepts. Every case is its own
because the circumstances, your emotional state at the time, your age, your fears and convictions, and
what it is at play is different.
I dont think that a specific theory is better than another, I believe that all three are good
(Consequentialist, Deontologist and Ethical Virtue along with our religiosity), but each one of them are
located in the vertices of an equilateral triangular pyramid with us inside, and every time we have to
make an ethical decision, we found ourselves at a different point of that pyramid.