Bill Gates: Causes And Ethical Dilemmas

At the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Bill Gates serves as co-chair. He is a business person who wants to transform the well-being of the third world via vaccinations. Bill Gates strategy is that of a utilitarian create, maximize and weigh the positive choices that will affect large numbers of populations. The standards that go into the moral decision making vary. Due to the scale of the operation the criterion used by him to weigh the cost and benefits that deal with such a vast amount of human lives would fall under act utilitarian. For example, Bill Gates states, “I’ll start with polio. Cases are down more than 99 percent since 1988. Earlier this year, we celebrated a fantastic achievement: India was declared polio-free.”(Bill Gates, 2014, para. 4) The decision to continue vaccination usage depends heavily on the data showing success in the large scale benefits vs adverse reactions. Example, anti-vaccination groups claim, “Gates is at fault for 47,500 paralysis cases after polio vaccine in India. However, the CDC has reported that there have been no cases of polio in India since 2011.” (“Bill Gates vaccinations,”
In situations such as this Bill Gates would probably argue that it is morally ethical to save the lives of millions opposed to not using vaccines in order to prevent adverse reactions such as paralysis that arise in small segments of the