Moral treatment

Shades of Injustice The difference between right and wrong is about as clear as mud; one person’s right decision may be a wrong decision to another person. In fact, there may be no right and wrong decisions, but rather decisions made based upon survival. When circumstances change, the decisions that would normally be made must also be changed to conform to the circumstance, shifting down a spectrum of shades of gray. When an individual loses control of their destiny, decisions that seem black…

Acacia Frempong-Manso 400013992 Philos 3N03 November 30th 2017 G.A Cohen’s criticisms of Rawls G.A. Cohen is best recognized in modern political philosophy for making the claim that the principles of justice are an essential reason behind the justification of an action-guiding principle, however, they are inappropriate to the conduct political practice. In Cohen's book, Rescuing Justice and Equality, he makes two criticisms of John Rawls. The first objection is that Rawl's is unable to…

After reading this reading essay Tora! Tora! Tora! by Pual Watson a lot of new ideas came to my mind like if I had to choose a side to be on after herring about the issues that the whales are facing due to fisher man who's side would I be on would take the side of the Sea Shepherds or would I join the Greenpeace’s non-violent activism? Throughout the essay Tora! Tora! Tora! Pual Watson stresses the importances of trying to stop people from poaching. Pual Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd…

The validity of their moral judgments now lies in the hands of potentially vindicating empirical research. Considering the nature of the topic, encountering such empirical evidence is merely a possibility. But for the debunker, this leads to mere uncertainty about evolutionary influences possibly shaping our moral judgments. Making the claim that our beliefs may be true only by mere coincidence is a strong statement…

responsibility to legislate on the issue of pornography according to the social moral consensus, and will argue that such principles have no place in state legislature or what the state should restrict. I will then argue that state legislation on pornography with content that which isn't already illegal would be a state incursion into an individual's negative Liberty, which cannot be justified according to…

upon what he believes our moral duty is in regards to providing for the poor. Specifically, he uses the example of the poverty in East Bengal, but he uses his arguments to defend the general hypothesis that “[i]f it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.” His first argument, in which he states this “strong hypothesis,” points out that this is not a demanding moral principle. It…

order. In the eyes of the characters, locating a way to stay moral is very challenging. When it is noticed that people who aren’t moral and doing as they please are gaining success, staying moral is testing. Being a Christian helped some characters who were conflicted, stay moral. Most of the men that are fighting for power stay immoral because their vision is clouded with power. From a Christian standpoint, it is much easier staying moral because you know the rewards in heaven will be worth…

final statement, of the lack of a final moral determination, that may cause some to reject a black box approach but again I disagree as I think this is actually the point and why Thompson is wrong with the Innocent Bystander (IB). Taking Thompson’s aggressors cases, they would fit in well with the previous scenario, if we knew the man who died was the aggressors and actively trying to kill the other, we would assign self-defence. There seems to be a moral right, if we are innocent to defend our…

unjust meaning its not morally wrong. There is a difference in a desire and a moral obligation. We define a desire as a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. We define a obligation as an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment. We as humans have many desires but fewer moral obligations. A desire is much more different than a moral obligation. We sometimes believe there are desires but we have no right…

morally right for him or her. Meanwhile, the moral code is also different from cultures to cultures, which…