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a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...
plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...
the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
of moral realistic thought and debate. Thomas Hills "Moral Agency Presupposes Autonomy of the Will"...
nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...
rule utilitarianism (Pojman and Meagher 223). Act utilitarians are often thought of as consequentialists because they look at the...
absolute, or to take the view that killing an enemy to defend ones country is not "covered" by the ethical imperative....
things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...
is a theory that a student writing on this subject should certainly explore. Central to utilitarianism is the premise that it ...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...
trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...
that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...
Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....
a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...
dealing with the actual philosophies and how they fit into the auditing profession. What well do, first of all, is define what it ...
administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...
perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...
taken ten years to be resolved (2003). These authors also report there are so many lawsuits being filed related to the set-aside p...
who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...
are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
In perhaps one of the most dramatic shows of foreign support of human rights, in 1980 President Jimmy Carter cancelled the America...
Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...
of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...
of common sense, then any form of control that is promoted by Mills utilitarian belief comes not from the desire to better the wor...