dark side of Batman‚ hunting ugliness and vermin of the society. His seek of truth and justice posed a horrifying obsession‚ where mercy and redemption are a kind of luxury. Ozymandias murdered millions based on his own will. Rorschach squeezes and tortures people‚ just because “I saw society’s true face.” We might try to understand their beliefs‚ even find them attractive‚ but in real life‚ news of a ripper who condemns the world go on a killing spree every night‚ it’s just terrifying. Not to mention
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pregnancy thus ending the life of the embryo/fetus prematurely. My ethical justification for abortion stems from a rule-utilitarianism standpoint. When using the rule-utilitarian consequential principle of ethics‚ we establish a set of general morals and rules in which we can apply to every moral question based upon our utilitarian findings. When this is applied to abortion‚ we can see that abortion is a completely ethical entity that provides the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount
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SKEPTICISM PHILOSOPHY Skepticism: • It comes from the Greek word skeptikoi which means “seekers” or “inquirers.” • It refers to the critical attitude wherein a man questions different things including the well-known absolute truth or knowledge. • Note that skepticism (philosophical that is) should be contrasted with philosophical dogmatism wherein the latter is the direct opposite of the former. Philosophical dogmatism refers to an attitude wherein a man believes to have absolute
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would have led to stealing‚ without any judicial recourse. Yet it is also now just is easy for us to assist those on the other side of the country or the world who are worse off than our poorer neighbors. This globalization of community and the utilitarian arguments based on balancing diminishing virtual utility of money with an incentive systemare the main arguments for global (eventually) government-sponsored redistribution of income. Why is religion on the rise? It is not. From a global
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should employ a utilitarian approach‚ which maximizes the greatest prosperity to the greatest number of the population‚ by requiring Lester Lumber Company to distribute the remaining lumber amongst the poor at a discounted price. The alternative option is libertarianism‚ which is the idea of creating minimal state interference and allowing inequality to occur due to people’s freedom of choice. In my opinion‚ you should not carry out a libertarian ethical theory‚ as a utilitarian perspective allows
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who is a utilitarian believes in one principle of utility‚ which is to opt for an action that will bring the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people (Ronsenstand‚ 2013). It is not a decision made with selfish intentions‚ as it does not matter who benefits from the decision‚ as long as it is for the greater good. The utilitarian belief can be a solution to certain moral problems‚ but there are also problems that may arise from it. One of the problems of the utilitarian theory is
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both scenarios have the same answer for you? Would one be more difficult to answer than the other? There is only one right answer‚ depending on your ethical stand and the following examines the trolley problems from the view point of Kantian and Utilitarian ethics to determine how each theory applies‚ and what the answer would be according to the ethical standards set forth by each. Kantian ethical practices mandate that an individual cannot chose a course of action that causes them to become immoral
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Both Kantian Ethics and utilitarian ethics are two of the most well know conceptions on human nature and how we as human beings should go about living our lives. They also have strong cores and there purpose is very clear. According to utilitarianism humans have two masters’ pain and happiness‚ only good actions will achieve happiness and will also minimizes pain. In one sentence you can describe utilitarianism as “the greatest good for the greatest amount of people”. While in the other hand the
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UTILITARIAN AND KANTIAN APPROACHES TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROUPS AND OUTSIDERS All of the social and political theories discussed in the previous sections agree that good leadership must be in the interests of followers. Where they disagree is on how much inequality between leaders and followers can be justified in pursuit of the common interest. Thus far we have equated the common interest with the interests of leaders and followers alone.[11] We turn now to a second main question about inequality
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“PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE” In this video‚ some real life examples of Utilitarian principles and morality are presented. Generally‚ utilitarianism is an area of philosophy relating to the principles of justice‚ fairness‚ ethics and one of the studies helping to answer to the question “what is the right thing to do?” Jeremy Bentham is an early advocate of utilitarian philosophy‚ in which‚ the highest principle of morality is to maximize the general welfare and mass happiness. In other words
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