Moral treatment

Mankind’s Enemy Is Itself: The Effects of Peer Pressure on Morality Without guidance, people always seem to lean towards decisions that they view as “morally correct.” However, the temptation to give in to the will of others often overpowers a person’s sense of “right,” and distorts what humanity considers to be the right thing to do in certain situations. Authors like Norman Cousins in “Who Killed Benny Paret?,” George Orwell in “Shooting an Elephant,” and Arthur Miller in “Get it Right:…

can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything,” (Rand “How to Lead”). This is saying that someone must pass moral judgment and assessment of someone else’s character to keep your own character from shriveling away into nothing. Moral assessment and judgment is exactly what Equality 7-2521 did with the society’s leaders.…

Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent - NATURAL LAW The purpose of this paper is to analyze three moral actions found in the media piece "Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent" based upon the principles of forfeiture and double effect found within the Natural Law Theory. In general, Natural Law is derived from seemingly unchangeable moral principles found in nature through the use of logical reasoning. As a result, Natural Law only creates vague but strict guidelines as to how a human should behave. Criteria: Delving…

The essays “The ‘Values’ Wasteland” by Charles Sykes, “The Damned Human Race” by Mark Twain and “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are examples of three different argumentative writing styles. According to our textbook The Little, Brown Handbook, there are three elements that create an effective argumentative essay and those elements are 1) claims, 2) evidence and 3) assumptions (Fowler & Aaron, 2012, p. 186). Not to mention, knowing a writer’s…

Punishment doesn’t means no learning, instead a person does learn something and as a result, it would decrease the likelihood of a behavior, and also is most effective if it is delivered immediately after the unwanted behavior. Skinner’s position was called radical behaviorism and the supporters of radical behaviorism argued that his theory was misunderstood and misrepresented; a concept that uses human cognitive ability can be found in creatures by using experimentation. Hopping pigeon showed…

RATIONALIZING OUR BEHAVIOUR 1 The first reason is “Everybody does it” - This has been used to excuse ethical misconduct. It is assumed that the ethical nature of an act is somehow improved by the number of people who do it, and if “everybody does it,” then it is as well: cheat on tests, commit adultery, lie under oath, Of course, people who use this reason usually don’t believe that what they are doing is right because “everybody does it.” Since most people will admit that principles of…

In his article “A Critique of Utilitarianism”, Bernard Williams attempts to dismantle utilitarianism completely but refuting the fundamental principles of which it stands on. According to Williams, Utilitarianism requires the abandonment of moral integrity and allows negative responsibility to have much more weight than it should. In order to fully understand all aspects of this dispute, a brief explanation of utilitarianism must be laid out. It is then that we are able to look at Williams’…

Number one, Suffering and/or dying of extreme poverty is very bad (Singers 231). Number two, if you can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance (like getting your clothes wet to save a drowning child), you ought to do so (Singers 231). Number three, do more to support famine relief, which is an organized effort to reduce death caused by starvation. Number four, if you do all these…

Honor is a great thing that can drive us to do great things, as we can see in the novel “ An Ember In The Ashes” by Sabaa Tahir. In this novel there are two main characters, Elias and Laia. Elias is a martial soldier trained at Blackcliff , soon to become a mask , a highly trained killer and law enforcer that works for the empire, but he deeply wishes he could escape the empire, believing that their values and beliefs are wrong and cruel, he dreams of escaping and one day being free of the…

Partner one, Brian Burkhalter. discussed how his least like moral theory was the Kantian Moral Theory due to its practical flaws. His whole argument was on a basis that we have to have consequences for the people to be morally good. I disagree. I think the standard for humans is just very low. The duty of humanity now is based on consequences like jail, contracts, or the enforcement of taxes which does not comply with Kant’s theory. Kantian Moral Theory depends on the whether or not you have…