Prima facie

types of violent crimes throughout one hundred and seventy cities in the United States, concluded that gun restrictions generally had no effect on suicide and violent crime rates (Kleck and Patterson 1993). In order to justify taking away citizens prima facie rights, gun abolition would need to save more lives than it costs. Even if the there was a strong correlation between guns and crime, abolition or restrictions wouldn’t stop the ability of getting a firearm. For the same reason as alcohol…

Levels of Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development The first level is the moral/ preconvention. The moral values in this stage are inherent in the quasi-physical and external events. Here, people are supposed to adhere to the rules and assess the labels and regard them regarding the unpleasant or pleasant actions (Shaffer,2004). This level has three stages. The stages include obedience and orientation of punishment, naively egoistic adjustment and current stage. These steps can be incorporated…

The business ethics perspective analyzes business ethics problems as a conflict between the prima facie duty of profitability and some other prima facie duty of corporate citizenship. This analysis identifies the profitability issue and the corporate citizenship issue, considers all relevant deliberation data, then arrives at a conclusion concerning the actual duty in this case. Marketing ethics is a major issue in the business. The product and promotion of the marketing 4Ps are the major…

Marquis argues that killing a fetus deprives it of a valuable future/future like ours, and concludes by saying abortion is not morally permissible. I agree with Marquis’ argument that it is wrong to kill a fetus through abortion because I believe that they have a valuable future as all humans do. While I agree with Marquis that majority of deliberate abortions are seriously immoral, I do believe that in some cases it is permissible. For instance, choosing to have an abortion after being sexually…

Facts: In January 22, 2008 Candace M. Johnson purchased bullets from a Wal-Mart store in Illinois, without possessing a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card. The Wal-Mart sales clerk did not ask Candace to present her FOID card, which is required in order to posses ammunition or a firearm. By law Candace would not have been able to hold a FOID card after being part of a mental institution five years prior to her suicide. Candace used the bullets she purchased to commit suicide. Johnsons claims…

considered good, good all things considered, and prima facie good (Lynch 46). Prima facie good is good when all things are equal, this is the category that truth falls under according to Lynch. An example of prima facie good, is the belief that all truths should be pursued, this belief is normally good unless it would require the death of millions or other moral issues. In this case morality trumps the pursuit of truth. Lynch files truth under prima facie good, because he still believes that…

duties to which we must abide. He further agrees that it is never the consequence of some action that makes an action right or good. Just like Kant, he might say that we have an obligation not to kill, steal or lie. He described our obligations as Prima Facie duties. This means that they are, 'at first appearancee', things that we must do.. But Ross is also critical of Kant’s deontological views that make certain types of act always right or wrong. our moral rules & duties are never perfect…

discrimination that one was discriminated based on their protected class and going up against your employer who will not admit to the discriminatory accusations would be harder to prove evidence of disparate treatment. The employee will have to prove prima facie and be successful in order for the employer to be held accountable for the unfavorable personnel actions and in turn if the employer is successful it goes back to the employee having to prove that the legitimate claim was justifiable,…

According to Walsh (2013) it is acknowledged that, disparate treatment involves discriminatory intent or purpose by the employer. It forbids employers from treating candidates or employees differently because of their association in a protected class. Primarily, disparate treatment is a way to prove unlawful employment discrimination. Thus, an employee who makes a disparate treatment claim alleges that he/she was treated differently than other employees who were in similar situated classes and…

such as the need for self-improvement, our past actions, fairness for all, justice, etc. Acting in a moral way means balancing different obligations coming from different sources of morality. When making ethical decisions, we must be aware of the “prima facie” duties (Sadler 2013). These duties are fidelity, reparation, gratitude, justice and fairness, beneficence, self-improvement, and non-malfeasance. After considering all of these duties (in a way, one could think of them as rules of thumb),…