and let the other four be able to live. If Mill is going to obey his own theory he would say that only killing one person would be less harmful than killing all four of the people. If having one person die in contrast to having all five die a utilitarian would chose to kill one person and save four people. Mill’s decision would be solely based upon his own theory of promoting happiness to the greatest number of people. Personally I do not agree with Mill’s theory. What is good for
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send the vaccine or not‚ the three ethical decision making model will be applied. The main model that will be used is the Utilitarian model. As indicated‚ the justice model dictates that any profit obtained should be impartially distributed among all partners (George‚ Jones‚ and Waddell‚ 2013‚ 133; Walker 2013). Therefore‚ this model suggests to take the income in consideration and ignores the other moral implications. However‚ the moral rights model which is defined as a model that considers the
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Abstract In deciding if Bank of America should refuse to process payments and do business with Wikileaks‚ it is important to determine if there are any overarching utilitarian or deontological ethical factors. After consideration of the ethics involved from the standpoint of both organizations‚ I believe this decision comes down to a determination of the relative importance of competing rights. Bank of America’s decision will not solely affect the continuance of Wikileaks as an information outlet
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him would result in less aggregate pain for him. From this‚ the utilitarian would have to say that this is the right course of action. This seems counterintuitive. What that utilitarian is failing to ignore is the right to the man’s life. Even if his life has no value or happiness‚ he has still expressed his desire to live. In making the decision to kill him anyway‚ the utilitarian is placing no value on the man’s life; the utilitarian is playing God in saying that the morally right thing to do would
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relates to personal data stored on computer systems” (Techopedia‚ n.d.). It is the responsibility of the individual to protect their own privacy. Therefore‚ this essay will discuss the classifications of privacy rights by Durlak and linking it to the Utilitarian and Deontological ethics theories by referring to the An Ethical Duty to Protect One’s Own Information Privacy article. Privacy rights refer to legal rights for a person to “be left alone” but also their personal information to be kept private
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(Redirected from Utilitarian) Jump to: navigation‚ search This article discusses utilitarian ethical theory. For a discussion of John Stuart Mill’s essay Utilitarianism (1861)‚ see Utilitarianism (book). The Utilitarianism series‚ part of the Politics series Utilitarian Thinkers[show] Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick Peter Singer Forms[show] preference utilitarianism rule utilitarianism act utilitarianism Two-level utilitarianism Total utilitarianism Average
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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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Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory‚ which means that it judges the morality of an action based on the consequences that follow from it rather than on external moral duties. Philosophers who adhere to utilitarianism regard the maximisation of utility as the key determent for understanding whether an action is right or not . In this essay I will argue that the amount of utility produces by an action is not an ideal way of determining its morality. This will be done by firstly clarifying the
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consequentialism (Rosenstand‚ 2013). This means that any action should be judged by its consequences only. I believe that a utilitarian would find Physician assisted dying ethical because it is bettering an individual’s life. Utilitarians see as their moral guideline a rule that encourages them to make life bearable for as many people as possible (Rosenstand‚ 2013). A Utilitarian goes out of their way to make the people around them comfortable and happy and would go above and beyond to better someone’s
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his friend and his son who go out on a mountain hike and get stranded in a cave in bad weather. The boy will certainly not survive‚ not being as hardy as the men‚ and the men will only survive if they kill and eat the boy before he is frozen. The utilitarian thing to do is to eat the kid. Most people’s commonsense moral intuition would disagree‚ indicating that there are values that can (sometimes at least) supersede simple utility. It should be the utilitarian’s task to defend the eating of the child
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