According to the natural rights theory, an action is morally permissible if and only if it does not violate anyone 's negative rights and upholds your obligation to everyone 's positive rights. Positive rights are rights that others should provide for you without personally working to achieve them yourself. Negative rights are all other rights you have; everyone else only has the duty to not interfere with these rights. The challenges with this theory are agreeing on what is a right and determining if the right is positive or negative. Even Locke and the Universal declaration of human rights writers inferred different rights. In relation to this theory, the question is: which option, immediately calling the police or sleeping, protects everyones
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To do the right thing, one must act how they would want others to act and look out for other’s interests. It is not morally permissible to simply use other people for one’s own gain. Under this approach, they also must making the decision with reason and exclude any emotions. Humans are made to reason and to feel, so it hard to distinguish them from each other. Allowing for no exceptions is also problematic for the majority of people; numerous people can justify lying and even killing in some specific and extreme situations. In correspondence to Kant’s deontology, the question is: which action is how you would want others to act, and which action demonstrates your awareness of the value of your roommate’s and her …show more content…
These effects conflicts with your roommate’s or any college student 's goals of graduating. Despite your roommate’s interest, you must also consider the other students involved interest. At least half of students were drinking underaged, and if you decide to call the police they will be fined and suspended from school. $850 dollars is the fine for the first offense, but the other students may have already committed their first offense, so their consequences are heightened to an unknown level. Overall, calling the police looks out for your roommate, but not calling the police and sleeping looks out for the interest of the other 15 plus students. Kant’s deontology is based off of acting as you would want others to act. Sleeping while your roommate is passed out from drinking too much alcohol promotes a culture of bystanders. If someone bullied your sibling or a loved one, you would want someone to intervene. Your roommate is a “loved one”, to someone else. So, you should call the police because it satisfies both components of doing the right thing; It reaches the moral standard of intervention is an harmful situation and accounts for your roommates
To do the right thing, one must act how they would want others to act and look out for other’s interests. It is not morally permissible to simply use other people for one’s own gain. Under this approach, they also must making the decision with reason and exclude any emotions. Humans are made to reason and to feel, so it hard to distinguish them from each other. Allowing for no exceptions is also problematic for the majority of people; numerous people can justify lying and even killing in some specific and extreme situations. In correspondence to Kant’s deontology, the question is: which action is how you would want others to act, and which action demonstrates your awareness of the value of your roommate’s and her …show more content…
These effects conflicts with your roommate’s or any college student 's goals of graduating. Despite your roommate’s interest, you must also consider the other students involved interest. At least half of students were drinking underaged, and if you decide to call the police they will be fined and suspended from school. $850 dollars is the fine for the first offense, but the other students may have already committed their first offense, so their consequences are heightened to an unknown level. Overall, calling the police looks out for your roommate, but not calling the police and sleeping looks out for the interest of the other 15 plus students. Kant’s deontology is based off of acting as you would want others to act. Sleeping while your roommate is passed out from drinking too much alcohol promotes a culture of bystanders. If someone bullied your sibling or a loved one, you would want someone to intervene. Your roommate is a “loved one”, to someone else. So, you should call the police because it satisfies both components of doing the right thing; It reaches the moral standard of intervention is an harmful situation and accounts for your roommates