Elliot Zan Ethics

Hey there! Question for you. I know you teach ethics, and that our mutual friend Elliot Zans has exceptional taste in her company so I was hoping you could provide some direction in an interest I have that I believe touches your expertise. Maybe provide supporting or even contradicting ideas and ideologies. I'm a Marine, not a college student, and so I rarely feel I have anyone whom I can have an educated discussion about these things with.

I've been thinking over the past few years, and I feel that it would be theoretically possible and relevant to create a unit of worth or value that is based on the potential an event, idea, person, or invention has or has had in creating either positive or negative change at different levels of society …show more content…
This is not true. It would have to be tempered by statistical possibilities for future outcomes vs effects on the mother, which since her life and potential could be calculated with more certainty and a smaller degree of error and so would have to be weighted differently. I also realize that this could be viewed negatively due to the fact that it implies that the value of the life of one unborn child (one in a rich family for example) and another (one who will be indoctrinated into a child army for example) differs, but I beleive that we already agree with this subconciously, and it also leads to the fact that one of the greatest and most important moral responsibilities would first be to increase the potential for those with the smallest potential, as it would have the greatest impact on society in general. I believe this could describe our innate evolutionarily inherited moral propensities perfectly, however, I was hoping you could point me towards some supporting or conflicting resources to expand my mind and/or help me come to my own conclusions or