Moral treatment

He suggests that this is due to the extrinsic injustice present, or the effects (136). Moral condemnation also depends on whether the attitudes producing the acts were widespread, and whether the acts figure in an “accumulative harm” (137). Some may insist, however, that they are immoral regardless of their part in a collectively harmful set…

theory that Shaw examines is how morality is relative to one’s own culture. Some people believe that what is right and what is wrong is solely determined by what the culture says it is. The only way an action could be judged would be based on the moral system of society that it occurred in. For example, in the text it states “Abortion is condemned in Catholic Spain but practiced as a morally neutral form of birth control in Japan.” In this event abortion being condemned in Spain and being…

Philosopher and academic Alan Levinovitz recently offered a think-piece on the use of relativism in public discourse. In it, he makes solid claims against a certain kind of strong relativism, in which any kind of moral evaluation is thought to be unwise. But thankfully, relativism is a more capacious idea, and can help show us how to be more persuasive in our arguments against Trump. Specifically, Levinovitz lambasts “cultural relativism,” which he loosely defines as “reluctance to take one…

What role did the media play in creating a moral panic about the Cronulla Riots? On December 11th 2005 around five thousand people gathered at Sydney’s Cronulla Beach. This was a racist and violent act against young Lebanese and other middle-eastern appearance people. It was believed in the week which led up to the Cronulla Riots there was texts messages and a couple of media sources which had a part in the events that happened on that day and afterwards. (Poynting, 2006) The media sources that…

This essay with attempt to articulate the cultural phenomenon of “Satanic Panic” that occurred in the United States in the early 1980’s and 1990’s. Satanic Panic refers to the phenomenon of collective moral panic in American society. During this time it was believed that satanic rituals, child and animal abuse, and the infiltration of satanic cults into everyday life, was widespread and an immediate threat (Beard 212). This social panic manifested itself in various ways, primarily in the media,…

The idea of ethical and unethical is simply morality. Being able to distinguish right from wrong forms every single relationship in the world, whether it’s company to company, people to people, people to company, etc, it has a great impact in the world. Ugg Boots practices many unethical ways of running their business. Ugg boots has unfair pay to workers, creates pollution, and is high in animal testing and cruelty. To begin with, the company, they practice unfair pay to workers that make…

to choose between moral absolutism and moral relativism as a guide that the American society should use for making moral decisions. Both moral relativism and moral absolutism offer solutions to moral problems, but each will give completely different answers to the problem. Many great philosophers in history have debated on one side or another. In my opinion I side with the anthropologist Ruth Benedict and believe relativism is the better way to think and the best choice for moral decision-making…

The Flint, Michigan Water Crisis In Flint, Michigan there was a water contamination problem. Flint is a majority black city where 40 percent of people live in poverty. The water crisis started in April 2014, after Flint changed its water source from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water to the Flint River. After that, people started complaining about the quality of the water. City and state officials failed to see that there was a serious problem for months. (http://www.npr.org/s…

The Ganges river is one of the largest and most sacred rivers in the Hindu faith. Located amongst the southern Great Himalayas on the Indian side of the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the Ganges river is approximately 2,525 km in length, expanding from Northern India all the way to Bangladesh. There are various aspects to the Ganges river that are discussed amongst individuals, such as economical, environmental, spiritual, and physiological aspects. The Ganges, economically,…

Imagine a world in which the water was undrinkable, the land was unfertile and the air was suffocating. This is the world consumed by fracking. Fracking is harmful to the environment but seems to be making its way still around the world. Understanding the risk and the benefit ration and becoming educated about the ramifications should be a requirement to the decision makers determining whether an area will allow fracking or not. “The process of this hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation…