Wasserstrom: Adultery Adultery is much more than morally wrong. Wasserstrom points out this very thing in this reading. First he formulates an argument asking if adultery and morality in the same realm of wrongness and if so what puts them there. The first premise to take into account is breaking a promise, but does this make extra marital sex immoral? I would first like to touch on this “promise” that makes it immoral to have sex outside of the marriage. When marrying someone it is tradition to have vows, i see this as those promises. A vast majority of couples get married in a church, During the ceremony the officiator or priest usually is reading some sort of script from the bible uniting you as a couple, this usually entails the statement
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I will move forward under the notion of a wedding that is held in a church, and sworn in under oath on the biblical scriptures and promises made. During ceremony two people are sworn to unity, under the notion that you shall not commit adultery, read from the scripture. So that being the premise of your marriage you both come to the agreement, or make the promise,that this is not to be done. Morally it is wrong to commit adultery. Second stance is emotion, operating under the assumption that it is morally wrong to intentionally hurt someone or cause harm. By committing adultery you are not only hurting them but you are causing harm to their quality of life. So second grounds against adultery is the moral obligation you have to that person's emotion and quality of life. In conclusion. Adultery is morally impermissible to cause harm to someone intentionally, and exclude the emotion and promises you've …show more content…
Of course it is wrong to kill someone else because of a difference in views or sexual desires. We can all agree that it is morally wrong to do so. As she mentioned in the article it is a hate crime to kill someone under these circumstances. That being said, Janet Mock touches on the fact that if a transgender person is only sought after as a one night stand by a non transgender person, they are in no way obligated to tell that person, who seemingly takes no interest in knowing them there story and there sexcual
I will move forward under the notion of a wedding that is held in a church, and sworn in under oath on the biblical scriptures and promises made. During ceremony two people are sworn to unity, under the notion that you shall not commit adultery, read from the scripture. So that being the premise of your marriage you both come to the agreement, or make the promise,that this is not to be done. Morally it is wrong to commit adultery. Second stance is emotion, operating under the assumption that it is morally wrong to intentionally hurt someone or cause harm. By committing adultery you are not only hurting them but you are causing harm to their quality of life. So second grounds against adultery is the moral obligation you have to that person's emotion and quality of life. In conclusion. Adultery is morally impermissible to cause harm to someone intentionally, and exclude the emotion and promises you've …show more content…
Of course it is wrong to kill someone else because of a difference in views or sexual desires. We can all agree that it is morally wrong to do so. As she mentioned in the article it is a hate crime to kill someone under these circumstances. That being said, Janet Mock touches on the fact that if a transgender person is only sought after as a one night stand by a non transgender person, they are in no way obligated to tell that person, who seemingly takes no interest in knowing them there story and there sexcual