Yes Or No Moral Analysis

Morals or No Morals?
Ethics works to pose the questions of life that we would not think about on a day to day basis. What defines right or wrong? How do we know what the moral thing to do is in situations? Is there a moral solution? These are questions that we can evaluate, but how do we really know the right answer? The ethical theories of different philosophers can be controversial and they can challenge each other's thoughts. When it comes to moral dilemmas, philosophers Kant, Benthem/Mill, and Aristotle have different approaches on how to handle situations. When it comes to the absurd moral dilemma of killing a mean old rich lady with no family that uses her wealth to support the American Neo Nazi Party to redistribute her wealth to pediatric …show more content…
Utilitarianism works to maximize the good,pleasure and happiness in your life and minimizes pain and suffering. It focuses on the consequences and outcomes of actions and not rights or God's will. Mills emphasizes that to live our best life, we want to be happy. He even argues that animals deserve to live their best life. He ignores God's will and focuses all of life's purpose on happiness in order to express morality. When you do something, the consequences of it determine how ethical the action was. When it brings happiness to a lot of people then it is more ethical because you are thinking about others and not being selfish. When it comes to the rich mean old lady that supports the American Neo Nazi Party, in order to determine if it is morally right or wrong to kill her I would have to see the consequences that occur. Even though I would be taking her money to distribute to various pediatric causes and making people happy, I would be killing the old lady and also making the members of the American Neo Nazi Party mad. Even though this sounds morally wrong, Mill does not believe in God’s will or rights. Therefore, no one can say it is morally wrong to kill this lady for the good of pediatric …show more content…
The belief that we act out of goodness instead of strictly reason or laws is the most reasonable. Aristotle’s virtues are more balanced out then Kant’s amd Mills. Aristotle’s views about murder would be that it is not a virtuous act, but anyone could make a case as to why killing this mean old lady with no family that gives her money to an American neo nazi party would be a virtuous act. I would be acting out of goodness in order to help pediatric causes where people are actually dying and I would be bringing happiness to a lot of people and I would be aiming for good. Plus, the act of this murder is technically not what is bad, it is the bad character according to Aristotle’s theory. Many murderers do possess negative qualities because killing someone for no good reason is not ethical; however, there are also cases where murdering someone is the only ethical solution like if you were being robbed and they had a gun. You have the right to self defense in order to protect yourself and your own