Infanticide

expected net utility,” and Rule Utilitarianism, which states that “an act is morally required if and only if it is in accordance with a rule that maximizes utility.” The scenario which we will analyze under act utilitarianism is concerning the infanticide of a young disabled girl by her parents. I will be arguing on how both act and rule utilitarianism offer different morally obligated decision, with act utilitarianism…

us focuses in the branch of family homicides. What is a family homicide? Homicide means the action of killing another person. There are different types of homicides that happened in a family, for example, “Infanticide means the killing of a child by a parent”. (Bartol, 2014). The infanticide is when a woman kills her child that it is less than one year old. The reason why she kills it could be because she does not wanted to have the baby or the baby has a physic disability. This type of…

In Han China abandonment and infanticide were accepted because of economical problems. This lead to the conclusion that even under stable political and economic conditions an infants life was not preserved. “A starving woman beside the road hugs her child, then lays it in the weeds, looks back at the sound of its wailing, wipes her tear and goes on alone” (Doc. O). Since at this time in China many people were in the lower classes one can assume that it was normal that woman had left her child…

ID: 300100796 Kantian Deontology is characterized by the view that persons that are rational moral agents have equal value as well as equal worth. This moral theory has four key themes including dignity, autonomy, rationality, and morality. Additionally, the formula of humanity and the formula of universal law are taken into account when making moral decisions; these formulas are a part of the categorical imperative. Kant developed this moral theory as a way to evaluate the motivation for a…

10/14//2017 Extra Point MEDEA I was recently invited to assist at an event, the performance of MEDEA that Arte Boricua presented at Steppenwolf theater’s 1700, directed by Julio Ramos. The play opens with the assassination of a woman who had committed infanticide, killing two of her own children. The following acts take place in the afterworld, where the woman confronts the decisions she made, and, eventually, her assassins. The play was in Spanish with English subtitles by Maria Pabon.…

Tragic heroes show many similar attributes. These heroes have been found to create their own downfall. In the two plays Medea and Agamemnon, the readers are introduced to Medea and Clytemnestra. These women have a resembling story. Their husbands, Jason and Agamemnon, betrayed Medea and Clytemnestra by committing adultery. Clytemnestra and Medea did not take this unfaithfulness very well. Both women acted out of hurt when they exacted revenge against their adulterous husbands, by using their…

aside female infanticide is still occurring. People from both sophisticated and indigenous cultures from countries such as India and china are intentionally killing baby girls and having preference for baby boys. This is caused by the belief that baby girls are of less value to them. They are seen to be of less value because of reasons including anti-female bias, government policies and family economics. Family economics appearing to be one of the main reasons for female infanticide because of…

American organization that is religiously devoted to end women’s rights violations on an international scale. And, their main project is to share how China uses barbaric techniques to enforce the one-child policy. This includes forced abortions and infanticide.…

heredity. Throughout history, the world has seen many various attempts of controlling the quality of the gene pool. Examples can be drawn endlessly from various eras in history, such as the warrior society of the Spartans, which discarded newborns (infanticide)…

et al. (2011) looked at European wild boars in enclosed areas and studied the tendency of infanticide in the population. They discovered that the behaviour is normal in the species, and proposed it was the result of evolution. Victim sows did not actively defend their offspring from the sows which were initiating the attack during the study. Andersson et al. (2011) suggested that defence against infanticide is not a strategy that is commonly and inherently utilized by wild boars. Perpetrator…