falsify contract documents (False Claims Act)‚ and to commit fraud (Major Frauds Act). Not to mention conspiracy and aiding-and-abetting charges. Utilitarianism says that an act is ethical if its result increases total human happiness. The consequentialism of the utilitarianism theory for Darlene Druyun and Mike Sears was “Is it ethical to exchange an executive job for a high profile contract?” Both parties are going to benefit from the exchange and both parties will have something that they want
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There are people in this world that believe that ethics are relative‚ but there are other people who believe that ethics are absolute too. For a person who believes ethics are truly relative‚ they evaluate acts as right or wrong based on their culture or the person. Ethical or moral relativism is the position in meta-ethics that morality is not universal‚ but that moral truths can be determined by factors relative to social‚ cultural‚ historical or personal circumstances. In the other hand‚ people
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for it to be acceptable. A sentence to sum up this ’grey area’ in euthanasia is‚ How do you find a distinction between cutting short a life and allowing to die? Another argument that seems to be against the principals of euthanasia is that of consequentialism. It’s philosophy is purely about the outcome and it does not matter as to how the outcome was caused as long as the outcome is good. An example of this is one used by Petit‚ he states that ’If you believe something to be the ultimate good then
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NORMATIVE ETHICAL THEORIES Objective • Discuss the normative ethical theories L2: Normative Ethical Theories Beliefs about how people should behave can be classified into at least 2 major categories: Teleological theories (Consequentialism) Right actions are those that produce the most or optimize the consequences of one’s choices. Behaviour is ‘ethical’ if it results in desirable behaviour 1. 2. 3. 4. Ethical egoism Ethical elitism Ethical parochialism Ethical universalism Deontological theories
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Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and political radical. He is highly known and respected today for his moral philosophy‚ primarily his principle of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism evaluates actions based upon their consequences. Bentham is most famously known for his pursuit of motivation and value. Bentham was a strong believer in individual and economic freedom‚ the separation of church and state‚ freedom of expression‚ equal rights for women‚ the right to
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Is Abortion Morally Wrong? Abortion is the intended termination of a human pregnancy‚ many think that it is morally wrong in all cases‚ but can it be considered as morally permissible? Thou shall not kill‚ but what is really considered murder? Who draws the line on which murder should be permissible and which should not? You might want to get rid of bugs that may appear in your house and you squash them‚ which is not morally wrong but killing another human being with a cruel intent to harm them
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Introduction The essay in hand describes‚ explains and discusses an ethical problem which the company Google has to face due to its expansion in China. It is explicitly focused on the period from January 12th to March 19th‚ 2010. Accordingly‚ things that happened after this date could have not been taken into account. In a first step‚ the ethical problem of the company will be explained. After discussing in how far companies like Google do have social and
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Confucianism and Utilitarianism Comparing and contrasting these two ethical theories was quite difficult at times‚ mainly because they tend to be so contrasting that the two seem completely unalike. Especially when the two share a time difference of a couple millenniums from when they were created. This makes it quite easy to locate differences between the two‚ but for a quality paper that accounts for about only half of what to write. It took some time and extensive research to find what these two
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Probably no one in the English-speaking world is unaware that our Governor has spoken out on subjects where lesser mortals‚ especially politicians‚ have held their tongue. His opinions on the assassination of JFK appear to be well-founded (November ’99)‚ however‚ and his views about the religious right seem equally appropriate (Holiday ’99). Perhaps his proposals for the legalization of pot and prostitution also deserve some second thoughts. The strongest argument against prostitution
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