Lifeboat ethics

Back then, peoples social lives were very different from how it is now. As shown in the movie "Titanic" we could see how each class was seperated by which floor on the ship you were able to be on. The lowest class as in people who could just barley afford to get on the ship, stayed on the lowest floor of the ship. People of royalty stayed on the highest floor as they were seen to be of "most importance." What does being in a high or low class mean for you? Well, it limits you to who you can talk…

1. List the four characteristics of herding/nomadic groups brought up in the Crash Course Video. ­ They aren’t Jack Kerouac, they don’t produce manufactured goods, they live close to nature and harsh conditions, and they are more egalitarian. Complete the following chart: What Why Migration They move around according to the weather. They move in order to feed their animals. Trade They would trade with the near by settlers. They traded in order to…

Eric has gone to living with his parents, to moving out on the streets and dropping out of school, to being a successful motivational speaker. While eric’s parents were on a vacation, he decides to throw a party at his house. The next morning, he heard his parents down stairs; they came home a little too early. Now even though he knows that he’s in trouble, he still tries to lie about it. He tells his parents that he just never cleaned up after himself on the period of time that they were gone…

Rifkin says that philosophers and animal behaviorists have argued about the capability of self –awareness in other animals. While some argue that animals do not have self-awareness because “they lack a sense of individualism”, others beg to differ. A counter statement that Rifkin utilizes is the remarkable actions elephants do when they are faced with a dead kin. Elephants will “often stand next to their dead kin for days,” and occasionally touch “their bodies with their trunks. After…

Immortality is a concept that invokes thoughts of gods or energy, but can this concept apply to humans as well? In 1986 Freddie Mercury’s song, “Who wants to live forever,” has an underlying theme of one living forever against their will. 35 years before this song, cells taken from Henrietta Lacks became immortal and left her family to face a similar unimaginable quandary. The ethical research issues that have derived from the procurement and cultivation of her cells, and her family’s current…

responsible decision, I acted with integrity and altruism, not knowing that I was going to get anything out of my desicison to turn the money in, I was only concerned about the person that lost the money, getting it back. That is what having good ethics and having integrity is. It is doing the right thing. In the end, in some way you are rewarded for…

Justice is concerned with fairness and morality and virtue, a person who is just is not selfish and will willingly do the right thing no matter the effect it has on them. Justice demands this willingness to be fair, this is a characteristic that is extremely rare to come by. It is human nature to be concerned with the effects a certain action will have on yourself. A just person possesses the ability to set their thoughts about themselves aside and to act in a way that betters the whole (group,…

When considering what moral action to make, Kant asked people to follow two questions, what would happen if one made the maxim action of a universal law? The other question is if that universal action is possible. In this case one might think that killing would not create a better good because of their moral rights and it would be completely wrong. However when it comes to O.J, like I stated before he obviously had different moral rights than most people and he believed what he did was right.…

Final Paper Many people would agree that there appears to be a contradiction between a loving God and the reality of evil. The attempt to answer these difficult contradictions is referred to as a theodicy. The great Christian thinker of our time, C. S. Lewis, wrote as an atheist after his beloved wife died, “meanwhile where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms… But to go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is in vain, and what do you find? A door slammed…

Ban on Tobacco Ads by the Government of India In 2001 the government of India instigated a bill which banned tobacco companies from sponsoring sporting and cultural events as well as advertising their products. This induced some fierce debates with people arguing the ethical right the government has to meddle in such affairs, saying it infringes on the people’s rights of choice and building of commerce to improve the economy. The India government purported the objective of the ban was to…