Normative Ethics: Moral Decisions In The United States

Since the economic recession struck the United Sates, whenever the hard working taxpayers of this country see and hear the reports about the billions of dollars of our taxes being used in bailout relief for several of these powerhouse banks, and companies, it often tends to have a negative thought and impact in our minds. With thousands of Americans out of work, and thousands of people struggling to make ends meet, the mere thought of these huge finical corporations receiving a “pardon” on my dime infuriates me. But I then attempt to analyze the reasoning of why our government would even allow these Mongol companies to make the rich, richer, by taking taxpayer funds from the hard working class men and women. In order to find an answer to this analysis, I would first have to identify the normative ethics that deals with the utilitarian and deontological implications as to why should the top executives of the major banks that received bail-out money are allowed to receive large bonuses?
What Are Normative Ethics?
According to the Wikipedia encyclopedia the definition for the Normative Ethics, “is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when we think about the question “how ought one act, morally speaking? Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts. Normative ethics is also distinct from descriptive ethics, as the latter is an empirical investigation of people’s moral