Since the world isn’t perfect, and we cannot stop the criminal, let’s put a halt to the crimes that they could be potentially committing instead. One of the examples they go on to give, has to do with the criminal justice system, and it states, “Criminal penalties in particular should …show more content…
The world doesn’t have endless resources, and could run out of, if people are not careful. Humans create value in this same way, people are not robots and must manage what time, and energy is available to them, in what little time is spent on this earth. When this is explained by Julia Markovits in her video “the theory of right action is the one that maximizes and produces the most value, or the most expected value, given what's valuable or if uncertain what gives the most expected value”. (Wireless Philosophy) Something like the theory of right action could set people up for dignity as well. Instead of virtue ethics, dignity could be in unlimited supply if people aren’t worrying about making a right choice, or diluting an answer by finding an averaged …show more content…
When considering which action would be of the most benefit someone would have to implement a structured society that no one could alter in a way that would benefit themselves at all. It would work for all who seek a just, and moral decision based on ethics, and morality. Someone that was proficient in virtue ethics wouldn’t need deontology or laws to follow. Because, if someone’s given the choice of saving lives or not, the middle-ground here would be to save the many lives, by giving up your own life and accepting the consequence of breaking the law and hacking the network. Also, if given the choice of saving five patients, or just needy, as in the given example, from our week two video. It’s shown that a virtuously ethical person would divide the five doses and equally administer them among all six of the patients. In this example “needy” would be dead within moments, and there would be five with partial to moderate