Examples Of Noble Cause Corruption
In today’s society, noble cause corruption is unfortunately more abundant than it should be. Noble cause corruption is based on teleological ethics I the belief that the ends justify the means. In other words, the process of accomplishing something is ignored, and only the result of such act is judged on an ethical scale. The War on Terror, declared in late 2001 can be seen as plagued with noble cause corruption, and the Patriot Act is interpreted as guilty of being based on a teleological system. The Patriot Act, passed in 2001, allows investigators to utilize certain resources and tools to investigate crime, detect and investigate acts of terror, and drug trafficking (The USA PATRIOT Act: Preserving Life and Liberty). The Patriot Act allows for far less regulation when
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With the spark of 9/11, terrorist activities have been rising, especially in the U.S. with the rise of organizations such as Al Qaeda and ISIS resulting in high stakes in a security aspect. Although those organizations are primarily Middle Eastern, they have spread to the U.S. and have grown within the country. Such a growth has caused a fork in the road of ethics of national security. Certain government officials have taken the path of interpretation correlating to a teleological standpoint, using the Patriot Act to investigate several citizens, even the innocent ones under either a presumption of guilt, or an unreasonable suspicion of terrorism. The other path is a deontological view, being that the initial intention determines whether or not individual action was ethical. Along with the teleological approach to the Patriot Act, a hint of Utilitarianism tags along. The benefits of an individual may be sacrificed for the benefit of the majority. In this case, the government sacrifices the privacy of many individuals for the protection of even more
With the spark of 9/11, terrorist activities have been rising, especially in the U.S. with the rise of organizations such as Al Qaeda and ISIS resulting in high stakes in a security aspect. Although those organizations are primarily Middle Eastern, they have spread to the U.S. and have grown within the country. Such a growth has caused a fork in the road of ethics of national security. Certain government officials have taken the path of interpretation correlating to a teleological standpoint, using the Patriot Act to investigate several citizens, even the innocent ones under either a presumption of guilt, or an unreasonable suspicion of terrorism. The other path is a deontological view, being that the initial intention determines whether or not individual action was ethical. Along with the teleological approach to the Patriot Act, a hint of Utilitarianism tags along. The benefits of an individual may be sacrificed for the benefit of the majority. In this case, the government sacrifices the privacy of many individuals for the protection of even more