Moral panic

Preston-Roedder makes a point that a genuine belief in faith in humanity also makes ongoing assessment of whether faith in humanity is paying off. For example, the belief in faith in humanity necessarily prevents unfair prosecution and punishment of innocence people. A belief in faith in humanity discourages intentional wrongdoing to others by biasing the cognitive assessment of them in a favorable light. In Bread and Wine, Silone claims that a Fascist state requires complete unanimity to…

he argues that any kind of suffering from lack of food, healthcare and shelter is a bad thing. He further argues that if we have the ability to prevent something bad from happening, that it is our duty as moral beings to prevent suffering unless we have to sacrifice something of significant moral importance. In class we called it the prevent suffering principle. An example that Singer gives is of the prevent suffering principle is to imagine a young child drowning in a shallow pond. He goes on…

There is no doubt that in every office or social setting there are certain groups that stick together and have developed a certain loyalty to each other, even when the behavior of the group is seen as immoral or unethical. Does this constitute a moral right to speak up and break that trust? People should address situations within their group where others act in immoral ways regardless of the outcome. It is morally right to call out immorality; to stand silent is like agreeing with the…

his job; Detective Ben Price was hot on his case. However, when Jimmy meets Annabel Adams, he has a change of heart and his world flips. Jimmy Valentine was truly dedicated to living a moral life because he made sacrifices, showed compassion, and took responsibility for his actions. Jimmy was devoted to living a moral life because he made sacrifices. The first thing he sacrificed was his old villainous job for a new normal one. Jimmy explains in…

In 'Moderate Moralism', Carroll (1996) argues that artistic autonomy does not preclude a moral approach to artworks. That is, unlike autonomism, which holds that aesthetic evaluations of artworks are always autonomous from moral components, some works of art trade in moral emotions as part of their aesthetic form. In this analysis I will briefly explain Carroll's argument, which focuses on narrative artworks, and is contrasted with autonomism in both its radical and moderate forms. Although…

The notion of “separateness of persons” has posed several convincing objections to utilitarianism. These have been voiced by Rawls, Nozick and Nagel all of which have disregarded the moral force that drives utilitarianism, highlighting the theories lack of recognition of individuality and separate utility. To me, the “separateness of persons” not only is successful in silencing utilitarianism, it also is crucial to our very concept of morality. I argue this through presenting defeats to…

aspects like appearance, ethnicity, religion, virtues, you're decisions and morals. Morality is a huge role in creating your identity because I personally think it’s the most important one. Moral’s are the key to everything, the key to good friendships, relationships, habits and more. A unmoral human compared to a moral human is a big difference, when you don't have morals everything is a ripple effect. As a person with no morals you are repeatedly practicing you're vices and you're bad…

People’s words are nothing without action to back them up. You have a solid understanding of what the moral lesson or what the teaching is from every story and it will always relate to your life, you never have to worry about reading something that may be misleading or that doesn’t apply to society. "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the…

Jodi Lynn Anderson, author of Tiger Lily wrote “To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly” (Anderson 1). If an individual has the ability to protect someone that they love, then it is that individual’s duty to use that ability. No matter how small the individual or how much of an outcast the individual may be, he or she still has the ability to make sacrifices and protect those whom they care about. In “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, Jim, although considered…

The first line of criticism is reasonable. Because we apply moral criticism to someone’s moral sentiments, on the assumption that they are capable of improvement, and that they reflect moral credit or discredit on a person . Hutcheson tries to explain some criticisms of a particular agent’s moral sense, by reference to the moral sense of the ‘normal’ observer. For Hutcheson ‘normal’ just means ‘statistically most frequent’. Though Smith objects this, he never put forward something more to…