Morality Theory In John Cheeseman's The Joy Luck Club

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This is a case of a domestic disturbance in the club. Plaintiff Ginn’s become “silly drunk” in one of the nightclubs in Georgia. He was asked by several patrons and the manager to leave the premises but didn’t left until the police came. Consequently, Ginn’s has a moral obligation theory, it is a “Rawls’s social justice theory” and according to Cheeseman “it is a moral theory which asserts that fairness is the essence of justice. The theory proffers that says each person is presumed to have entered into a social contract with all others in society to obey moral rules that are necessary for people to live in peace and harmony”. So, Ginn’s decided to leave the club but he forgot his jacket so he went back to get it. On the process of getting …show more content…
Then, the customer who pushed the victim did not do the Kantian ethics (duty ethics) because according to Cheeseman “Kantian Ethics is a moral theory which says that people owe moral duties that are based on universal rules, such as the categorical imperative, do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Cheeseman, 2013 page 714). Another duty that the manager did not do is the Social responsibility theory because as stated by Cheeseman “Social Responsibility is a theory that requires corporations and businesses to act with awareness of the consequences and impact that their decisions will have on others” (Cheeseman, 2013 page 715) also “it is a theory of social responsibility which says that a corporation’s duty is to make a profit while avoiding causing harm to others” (Cheeseman, 2013 page

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