Case Assignment 1: 'The Lottery Ticket'
Running head: Case Assignment #1 “The Lottery Ticket”
Case Assignment #1
“The Lottery Ticket”
Amanda Melvin
Case Study #1 “The Lottery Ticket”
A person representing ethical egoism would advise me to do whatever I feel is necessary for my own good. An ethical egoist would say that people should do whatever they believe or think is in their own self-interest. If you feel it would benefit you to use the wining lottery ticket as your own then go for it. If you feel that $1.8 million will help you out of your financial hardship then go for it. Ethical egoism allows you to go against your morals and values and keep the ticket for yourself. There are strengths and weaknesses when it comes to advise from ethical egoist. The strengths in the egoist’s advice is that the egoist is aware of their own morals and beliefs and they understand the consequences for not doing the right thing. The weakness in the ethical egoist’s advice is that if doing what I feel is good for self is against their morals they will not try and get me to do the right thing because they believe I should do whatever I feel is good for me.
If in this case I would take the winning ticket because my neighbor would never know that the winning ticket is actually hers. Although it is wrong, untruthful and stealing I know that I need the money to help me financially. I also would take the winning …show more content…
There is a difference in ethical problems and legal problems; legal problems have the law to back them up and ethical problems have no law to back them up. Ethically, I am not truthful with my neighbor when she asks if she has the winning ticket. Calling the law cannot fix the problem because she does not know the set of numbers that I played for either of us and in the court of law she cannot prove
Case Assignment #1
“The Lottery Ticket”
Amanda Melvin
Case Study #1 “The Lottery Ticket”
A person representing ethical egoism would advise me to do whatever I feel is necessary for my own good. An ethical egoist would say that people should do whatever they believe or think is in their own self-interest. If you feel it would benefit you to use the wining lottery ticket as your own then go for it. If you feel that $1.8 million will help you out of your financial hardship then go for it. Ethical egoism allows you to go against your morals and values and keep the ticket for yourself. There are strengths and weaknesses when it comes to advise from ethical egoist. The strengths in the egoist’s advice is that the egoist is aware of their own morals and beliefs and they understand the consequences for not doing the right thing. The weakness in the ethical egoist’s advice is that if doing what I feel is good for self is against their morals they will not try and get me to do the right thing because they believe I should do whatever I feel is good for me.
If in this case I would take the winning ticket because my neighbor would never know that the winning ticket is actually hers. Although it is wrong, untruthful and stealing I know that I need the money to help me financially. I also would take the winning …show more content…
There is a difference in ethical problems and legal problems; legal problems have the law to back them up and ethical problems have no law to back them up. Ethically, I am not truthful with my neighbor when she asks if she has the winning ticket. Calling the law cannot fix the problem because she does not know the set of numbers that I played for either of us and in the court of law she cannot prove