consequentialist, deontologist, virtue
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7 Pounds presents to the viewer's many ethical situations that pull on the strings of emotion. In the beginning, the premise of the movie isn't clear, instead, the audience meets a character who has flashbacks and who is involved with a variety of characters. Later on, the story becomes clear, the premise is based on Will Smith's character, he took the lives of seven individuals which includes a family and his wife. This accident occurred because he operated a vehicle while texting thus caused the vehicle to swerve into oncoming traffic. As shown in the flashbacks, he can not live without thinking of the past. Essentially, he felt as if he has stolen their lives and the least Tim …show more content…
Here, Tim takes on the role of his brother as an IRS agent (pretending to be his brother). The reasoning behind this is to give people whom he finds fit a second chance. This fact alone holds many ethical issues: deontology ethics outright would be against this since it's illegal to take on the role on a role of a professional without holding the actual credentials for yourself, in essence, this is fraud. But, Tim Thomas was able to portray the IRS agent role as a believable person because his past job was an Aerospace Engineer, this would require a person to be very analytical and attention oriented. The consequences of the Utilitarian approach to this particular issue would be viewed as a benefit for the greater good since he's looking to help individuals who're sick and are generally "good" people. He'd refuse to help an individual when he found out the person was cutting costs at the care facility he worked at and was giving individuals medication which made the patients sick. Lastly, the Virtue approach would apply against Tim Thomas, the reason being is because he's breaking the law which many people wouldn't do and he could simply be a donor to people on the nation wide waiting list instead of cutting
Summary slide/slides:
7 Pounds presents to the viewer's many ethical situations that pull on the strings of emotion. In the beginning, the premise of the movie isn't clear, instead, the audience meets a character who has flashbacks and who is involved with a variety of characters. Later on, the story becomes clear, the premise is based on Will Smith's character, he took the lives of seven individuals which includes a family and his wife. This accident occurred because he operated a vehicle while texting thus caused the vehicle to swerve into oncoming traffic. As shown in the flashbacks, he can not live without thinking of the past. Essentially, he felt as if he has stolen their lives and the least Tim …show more content…
Here, Tim takes on the role of his brother as an IRS agent (pretending to be his brother). The reasoning behind this is to give people whom he finds fit a second chance. This fact alone holds many ethical issues: deontology ethics outright would be against this since it's illegal to take on the role on a role of a professional without holding the actual credentials for yourself, in essence, this is fraud. But, Tim Thomas was able to portray the IRS agent role as a believable person because his past job was an Aerospace Engineer, this would require a person to be very analytical and attention oriented. The consequences of the Utilitarian approach to this particular issue would be viewed as a benefit for the greater good since he's looking to help individuals who're sick and are generally "good" people. He'd refuse to help an individual when he found out the person was cutting costs at the care facility he worked at and was giving individuals medication which made the patients sick. Lastly, the Virtue approach would apply against Tim Thomas, the reason being is because he's breaking the law which many people wouldn't do and he could simply be a donor to people on the nation wide waiting list instead of cutting