Moral treatment

The question of whether or not a fear of death is rational is the crux of Jeffrie Murphy’s article Rationality and the Fear of Death. He sets out to argue that it is irrational to fear death and concludes that a fear of death is only rational if it helps the person live a meaningful life and irrational in all other cases when it has no real purpose in helping one live the way he wishes to. Murphy’s conclusion however leaves much to be desired in terms of strong evidence for his claim that…

Harper Lee discusses tough moral topics like racism and prejudice views, through the eyes of a child. The character Scout demonstrates a child’s obligation to pursue morality. But a child’s moral obligations depend on their moral foundation. Because children are naïve, they see situations ingenuously, unlike adults imbued with prejudice or racist ideas. Because Scout is a child she has that sense of naivety but can be more accountable for what she does because of the moral foundation. In light…

issues. In his book “Why terrorism works” (p.236), Dershowitz’s expresses serious concern about the moral limitations of the Cost-Benefit Analysis , which he suggests could lead to tyranny. In this essay, I seek to respond to Dershowitz’s concerns on the use of the Cost-Benefit Analysis through a defence of the morality by numbers approach. I suggest that this mathematical scheme, which discards complex moral factors, affords the best possible outcome…

Obedience - a person’s excuse for an otherwise inexcusable act. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience” attempt to illustrate how civilized, moral, upstanding people will commit heinous acts in order to conform with tradition or comply with an authoritative figure. Both of these writings bring into question how far should conformity and obedience to authority be complied with before it is wrong. Although complying with rules and authority maintains social…

One important reason that Laura and Howie’s excursion was an immature and foolish series of actions, for which they should be punished is that Laura and Howie did not have to leave the island at all. When Howie and Laura were left on the island the counselors were coming back to get Laura and Howie, therefore they didn’t have to leave the island. What Brock Cole is saying is that the counselors were going to bring Laura and Howie back to camp but, instead they ran away and endangered…

In the article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, by Peter Singer, he argues that affluent people are morally obligated to donate more resources to humanitarian causes. Singer demonstrates a view of ethics through the moral obligation to help someone. If, for example, a child is drowning in a pool of water, then you yourself are morally obligated to save said child. This thought we all have is that we should help everyone in need because it is morally right. While helping the child is the right…

killing each other and taking each other’s armor as a trophy. We don’t have armor to steal from each other so we don’t get the satisfaction of killing someone like the Greeks and Romans did. This is where Thomas Jefferson was wrong there are different morals we have now concerning the fact that it is not ethical to kill people just for the gratification of killing people. Citizens who are in the military gain their respect because they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the betterment of…

be made during the planning of World Petroleum’s business ideas in Afrinia. While the company has made it clear that their main goal is to be profitable for the shareholders, there were still moral aspects to every decision that needed to be made. To me the most important ethical dilemma is developing a moral compass for the company and sticking to it, for example: how to approach the difference in the northern (Banu) and southern (Abani) cultures, dealing with officials, and the environment.…

of survival Instinct vs. Morality. It is human nature for our natural instinct to be surviving so biologically speaking, it makes sense that all efforts would be geared towards surviving and that we, as the human race, would put our survival over moral. The belief that survival would override morale is shown throughout the novel during the adventure with the father and boy. The father and boy’s main journey in the book is to survive in hope of bringing back morality to the world as it once…

Today, you woke up. You did your morning routine, you took care of any business needed to be dealt with before heading to your job or doing whatever you do to erase your time these days. You did what you felt you had to do. You went home, finished off the day, then went to sleep. And like every time, right before you flip that light off in arms reach of your bed, you asked yourself those dreadful questions again. "Who am I really? What am I? What should I really be doing?". But you will not…