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    her parent’s grief in addition to their reluctance to allow organ donation‚ would she still wish to donate or would her concern for her family incline her to allow her parents’ wishes to be honored instead? It may be easy to assume that classic utilitarianism supports the action of harvesting Nicole’s organs against her parents’ wishes since providing the gift of life to multiple candidates results in the greatest happiness for the most people (Vaughn‚ 2013).

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    Deontology focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves whereas utilitarian focuses on rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions. Utilitarianism is the idea that the action’s moral value is based on its degree of maximizing pleasure and happiness as a consequence of the action. Hence‚ greater happiness the more beneficial or morally right it is based on this theory. It is a form of consequentialism compared to deontology which only takes into account of the moral

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    There are many different ethical theories that we have learned about throughout the semester. The three theories I have decided to use with this situation are Emotivism‚ Act-Utilitarianism‚ and Ethical Egoism. With each ethical theory‚ I will state why I chose the theory that addresses the situation and what it would tell Sarah to do. The first theory that address the situation is Emotivism. “Emotivism is the view that moral utterances are neither true nor false but are expressions of emotions

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    significant conflicts in the novel Cinder between characters: Cinder and Adri‚ Prince Kai and Queen Levana‚ and Cinder and Prince Kai. The first conflict I am analyzing is between Cinder and her

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    If a person is motivated by proper universal principles that treat everyone with respect‚ they will overcome any selfish instinct and act morally. Utilitarianism claims that the most important result of an action is to to maximize the amount of happiness and minimizing the amount of suffering in the world. If you have satisfied these goals‚ you have acted morally‚ even if your actions conflicted with rules

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    non-consequentialist. Consequentialist is considered utilitarianism and the non-consequentialist as deontology that differs in their views. Consequentialism is all about the ‘actions of consequences‚’ which are based on justification. The people that favored affirmative action for consequences‚ for them it works until it produces the greatest happiness for the largest number of individuals. ‘Utilitarianism and Egoism’ are both forms of consequentialist. Utilitarianism is defined as the ‘principle of utility or

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    1. What are the key differences between utilitarianism‚ deontology‚ natural law ethics‚ and virtue theory? Utilitarianism Theory is the moral theory that argues that an action is right if and only if it conforms to the principle of utility. The desire for pleasure and happiness is universal. People seek to maximize their pleasure and minimize their pain. Thus‚ a morally correct action is one which results in the greatest possible pleasure within a given set of circumstances. The text highlights

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    “Tyrant‚” should the patient be treated? Deontology clashes with utilitarianism when the patient is being diagnosed for his mysterious illness. For this situation in “Tyrant” a deontologist would say the ethical action would be to treat the patient and not based your decision on what the patient has done or plans to do. It would not be ethical to refuse him treatment or treat him wrong on purpose. Flip the roles to a utilitarianism‚ and they would say the ethical action would be the action that benefits

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    Intro to Ethical Hacking ALEPH S. GARCIA Ocean 11 ‚ perhaps one of the most successful films of all time in bringing together several of the biggest names in the movie business was never really expected to have such a cult following . In the 1960s this heist film was created by Lewis Milestone with the goal of featuring the original rat packers ‚ Frank Sinatra ‚ Dean Martin ‚ Sammy Davis Jr ‚ Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford . During this time ‚ it was never expected that this would be such a

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    most amount of people that are in need of the pleasure. With these measurements of pleasure and pain‚ utilitarianism can create the maximum amount of happiness. For utilitarians‚ the utility of happiness is the ultimate purpose to human life. The most important thing for everyone is to incorporate happiness and maximize it whenever necessary and for the most people in all of society. Utilitarianism is not an egoist theory. They do not intend on creating contentment for an individual‚ but rather the

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