Speech
Ethical Conflict
Ethical conflicts arise when someone has to make a choice between violating or abiding by one or more of their moral principles, leading to a paradox where neither choice leaves the individual satisfied
Ethical Conflict * Right Vs Wrong * Conflict between clearly ethical and clearly unethical values * Right Vs Right * Conflict among two or more values, all ethical * Wrong Vs Wrong
Classification of Ethical Issues
Welfare and charity. Welfare is organized charity, funneled through the collective, the government. But it raises many issues. How should we help others who are less fortunate? Can we differentiate between the "deserving poor" and the "undeserving" poor?
Addictive Substances–Alcohol, drugs, tobacco... * Environmentalism. What obligations do we have to the environment? A. To what extent must we go to preserve species of animals or plants?
B. How much intervention in foreign affairs is ethical in the service of "saving" forests, whales, various other ecological systems? * Suicide: How should the community relate to the problem of suicide? Should there be any legal constraints at all? A. Might it be allowed only to stop the suffering of the terminally ill?
B. What about people whose illnesses deprive life of its meaning–not terminal, but severely handicapped, or dying over years, but not immediately terminal. Should they be allowed to kill themselves? C. What about those who can't do it themselves? Should assisted suicide be allowed? B. Suicide: How should the community relate to the problem of suicide? Should there be any legal constraints at all? A. Might it be allowed only to stop the suffering of the terminally ill?
B. What about people whose illnesses deprive life of its meaning–not terminal, but severely handicapped, or dying over years, but not immediately terminal. Should they be allowed to kill themselves? C. What about those who can't do it
Ethical conflicts arise when someone has to make a choice between violating or abiding by one or more of their moral principles, leading to a paradox where neither choice leaves the individual satisfied
Ethical Conflict * Right Vs Wrong * Conflict between clearly ethical and clearly unethical values * Right Vs Right * Conflict among two or more values, all ethical * Wrong Vs Wrong
Classification of Ethical Issues
Welfare and charity. Welfare is organized charity, funneled through the collective, the government. But it raises many issues. How should we help others who are less fortunate? Can we differentiate between the "deserving poor" and the "undeserving" poor?
Addictive Substances–Alcohol, drugs, tobacco... * Environmentalism. What obligations do we have to the environment? A. To what extent must we go to preserve species of animals or plants?
B. How much intervention in foreign affairs is ethical in the service of "saving" forests, whales, various other ecological systems? * Suicide: How should the community relate to the problem of suicide? Should there be any legal constraints at all? A. Might it be allowed only to stop the suffering of the terminally ill?
B. What about people whose illnesses deprive life of its meaning–not terminal, but severely handicapped, or dying over years, but not immediately terminal. Should they be allowed to kill themselves? C. What about those who can't do it themselves? Should assisted suicide be allowed? B. Suicide: How should the community relate to the problem of suicide? Should there be any legal constraints at all? A. Might it be allowed only to stop the suffering of the terminally ill?
B. What about people whose illnesses deprive life of its meaning–not terminal, but severely handicapped, or dying over years, but not immediately terminal. Should they be allowed to kill themselves? C. What about those who can't do it