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    Moral Obligation

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    Throughout the chapter‚ Genetic Choices‚ the issue of moral obligations in regards to genetic information about potential disease and illness. Upon review‚ I find individuals to have a moral obligation to warn others if they have knowledge about their genetic predisposition in regards to disease and/ or illness. The first case I will discuss is when an individual knows their family members are either at great risk or are certain to have a specific disease and/ or illness due to their diagnosis or

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    Moral Obligations

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    dependents than we ought to morally do it” (Singer‚ 1972‚ p. 231). This means that if a person can help another person without sacrificing themselves in helping that person‚ than that person should help. Singer also argues that if people did act upon principle our lives‚ our society‚ and our world would fundamentally change. Singer first argues that distance and proximity shouldn’t be taken into account when it comes to helping. He argues that it makes no moral difference whether the person you

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    What Is Moral Obligation

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    What is moral obligation? What is the extent of our moral obligation to other people and other living things? By definition moral obligation is the belief that an act is one prescribed by a persons set of values (Wikipedia‚ 2005). It is also a duty‚ which one owes‚ and which one ought to perform‚ but is not legally bound to fulfill. David Hume ’s moral theory hinges on a distinction between psychologically distinct players: the moral agent‚ the receiver‚ and the moral spectator. All actions

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    night-I do not have to purchase these things with money.” I affirm the resolution‚ “RESOLVED: Access to drinking water ought to be valued as a human right instead of as a commodity.” Affirming achieves the value of morality defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as‚ “conforming to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.” This is the proper value for the round because of the word ‘ought’ in the resolution which the same sourced defines as‚ ‘Used to express duty or moral obligation’

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    Developed countries do not have a moral obligation to accept immigrants from developing or third world countries because it affects the whole country in a bad way. As a human being‚ it is our responsibility to help others but our first priority is to protect our country which most of the developed countries are doing nowadays. Moral good and moral must are two different things. If first world countries want to help refugees then we can say that it is morally good and a nice step but we cannot say

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    My Moral Obligation

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    Nicole Swires Mrs. Matayabas ENG 101 2:05 18 February 2010 My Moral Obligation to the Poor Have you ever stopped to think about all the general essentials you have access to and all the material possessions you have been blessed with? Often times I see people around me who seem unhappy with what they do have. There is nothing wrong with wanting or buying more than what we need; luxuries are nice. The problem comes in when we only think about ourselves and not about other people. Some people can

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    those in at least one other area of knowledge Do scientists have any ‘special’ moral obligations? Or should science seek to be free from any values and morals? This has been a popular topic that has been discussed throughout not only this century but also‚ centuries previous to us. While looking at natural sciences and ethics we can see that these two areas of knowledge are quite similar‚ specifically when looking at theories of ethics and how it can be implemented towards natural sciences. Using

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    ‘Must we only obey a just law; should we obey a law because it is just to do so; or else can we not obey at all?’ ESSAY The questions that shall be answered in this essay are ‘Must we only obey a just law?’‚ ‘Should we obey a law because it is just to do so?’ and ‘Or else‚ can we not obey at all?’ Before we can answer these questions it is important to establish what is meant by the term ‘just’. ‘Just’ in this case means ‘morally just’‚ I think‚ but differences of opinion exist as to its meaning

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    is we have a moral obligation to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people (Mill‚ p. 364) and Peter Singer believes we have a moral obligation to help others less fortunate than we to the extent at which no more moral good comes of comparable significance to the bad thing that we “ought” prevent (Singer‚ p. 874). How is it that we are somehow philosophically indebted to society and required to alleviate suffering? Can such an obligation even be construed moral? I contend that

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    Life isn’t always simple for those in third world countries. Because of this‚ Peter Singer has said that we as a society have a moral obligation to help them by donating to charities. However‚ not everyone agrees with this point. Personally‚ I believe that you never have a moral obligation to do anything‚ unless you personally believe that you must. Some people may not feel obligated to help the citizens of poor countries. More often than not‚ this is because they believe that their charity will

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