Universal Moral Wrongs and Relativism Lori-Ann Racki SOC120- Intro to Ethics and Social Responsibility Dr. Megan Reid November 12‚ 2012 Universal Moral Wrongs and Relativism In the article “Some Moral Minima”‚ Lenn Goodman argues that there are certain moral wrongs that are universal. He describes four areas he believes are areas of universal moral wrongs in detail. Morality has been an issue that many societies all over the world have
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Utilitarianism is a moral theory which centers on happiness and how we can promote it‚ and is measured by our actions. Utilitarianism explains how human’s ultimate goal is to achieve happiness. This is also called hedonism‚ limiting the amount of pain and equating happiness with pleasure. This theory explains how we aim for happiness through our actions. According to hedonism‚ when a person wishes to act ethically‚ they should strive to produce the greatest possible amount of happiness for the greatest
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Morally Wrong (Natural Law Theory) Dating a man you have only known for a few weeks‚ you discover your pregnant. You inform your partner of the news to discover he does not want a family. He states that it’s your choice on what to do as long as he doesn’t have to be apart of your life or the expected child’s life. You are now left alone with the choice to raise the child alone or to have an abortion. What is morally right in this situation‚ to keep the child or an abortion? The Natural Law Theory
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Piracy‚ is it morally wrong‚ or right? Through our recent history there have been a rise in the peer-to-peer sharing programs and the availability of many types of media on the internet being available and free. In order to understand and gain knowledge on this issue‚ we can apply some universal moral theories which include the Kantian‚ Utilitarian‚ and Rights ethics. With how technology has advanced‚ the internet has become easier to get access to. Most of these users participate in file-sharing
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This statement is a fairly strong one however when one looks up the Oxford dictionary for both words‚ are they related? Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy and murder is the intentional killing of a human life whether an adult or a child. If the child is in the womb for seven months (the later development stage) or 2 to 3 weeks (the early development stage) it is still murder making the statement ‘Abortion is murder’ true. There are however‚ many arguments put forward in relation
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should have considered and the procedure(s) the firm should have carried out in determining whether it should accept the appointment as auditors to Gramjon Limited. The most general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person‚ organization‚ system‚ process‚ project or product. Audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information‚ and also provide an assessment of a system ’s internal control. (Wikipedia‚ 2009) Auditors have to do a lot of research on a firm before accepting
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THE CAUSES OF BABY DUMPING IN NAMIBIA Introduction Cases of baby dumping have been on an increase over the recent years there for raising questions on what really causes baby dumping. There are several causes of baby dumping such as unemployment‚ lack of sex education and lack of religious upbringing. We are than going to discuss these causes farther in the next paragraphs. Lack of sex education The first cause of this issue in Namibia is lack of sex education. Parents and educative institutes
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right or a wrong thing for a woman to do. Abortion is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus (which is where the embryo/fetus matures) in order to end a pregnancy in a woman. Some people feel that abortion is wrong and call abortion murder of innocent children‚ while others feel that abortion is only the removing of cells in a woman’s body‚ preventing a baby from forming‚ because they feel that the embryo/fetus isn’t even a human being. I personally feel that abortion is wrong for many reasons
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In the world‚ we live in today discrimination and segregation is not unusual‚ but back in the early 1900’s‚ it was worse. Laws had it where people weren’t allowed to co-live peacefully with each other because of ethnic and background. Even though it was a long process to teach this society that segregation is wrong. It allowed the United States to know that segregation laws are wrong because they are unfair‚ unequal‚ and dangerous. One of the ways to describe segregation would be unfair. For
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Although the U.S.A went into Vietnam with the best of intentions‚ the conflict went horribly wrong.’ The Vietnam War was a conflict‚ which the United States involved itself in unnecessarily and ultimately lost. The basis of the conflict was simple enough: Communism vs. Capitalism‚ yet the conduct of the Vietnam War was complex and strategic‚ and brought repercussions which had never been seen before. The struggle between North and South had an almost inevitable outcome‚ yet the Americans entered
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