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Legislation Enacted Under Utilitarianism

to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...

West Virginia's Pending or Recently Enacted Legislation

In three pages this paper discusses recent legislation in WV that has either been enacted or is pending. Four sources are cited i...

Three Strikes Law Evaluated

A hypothetical situation submitted by a student forms the basis for this paper consisting of eight pages in which Hawaii's 'three ...

FDR's New Deal and 1935's National Labor Relations Act

In ten pages this paper presents an historical overview of the New Deal legislation enacted by the administration of President Fra...

Would NCLB Act be Successful in the United Kingdom?

despite the optimistic revulsion there is still concern. Research conducted by universities into the level of literacy and numerou...

Anti-Terrorism Measures in South Africa

cooperation in the matter of giving up its weapons of mass destruction. In 1989, President de Klerk decided "to end South Africas ...

Federal Health Care Legislation

included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...

Avoiding the Civil War

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

Appealing Against an Unfair Statute or Unfair Implementation of a Statute

This 9 page paper looks at a fictitious statute which has been applied unfairly by a commission set up under the act. The writer c...

Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism

In six pages this essay defines utilitarianism and then attempts to answer 'Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarian...

Types of Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper defines the philosophy of utilitarianism and differentiates between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. ...

The U.S. Decision to Invade Iraq in 2003, Justified with References to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Nagel and the Principles of Utilitarianism

rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...

Immorality of Deforestation Questioned

of an action is determined only by the welfare of individuals (2003). It is important to note that this topic involves the environ...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Ethical Theories and Norma Rae

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

Problems with Regulation/Legislation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Health Act also established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which under the auspices of the U.S. Departm...

A Poll on the Safety of Firearms

In seven pages a poll in which the question is asked "Do you favor Federal legislation that will promote firearm safety and r...

Employment and Directives of the European Community

This paper examines employment legislation in an overview of EC directives' effectiveness in Great Britain in seventeen pages....

Secondhand Car Sale Case Study

Buying a used car is a transaction which is covered by the Sale...

H.R. 724/Nursing Education Act of 2009

back to Congress on the proposed legislation, either favorably or unfavorably (GovTrack, 2009b). They are first considered in the ...

Legislation on Euthanasia

Another state, Colorado, enacted a petition in 2000 that would allow for the legalization of physician assisted suicide but the ap...

OP-ED EDITORIAL: LEGISLATING FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR

reform bill" will end up punishing the wrong people and institutions. This is not to say the bill isnt a well-meaning attempt on t...

Irregularities in Accounting at WorldCom and Enron

savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

The Flaw in Utilitarian Theory

is one alternative in deriving a moral theory when considering a variety of philosophical models. Above all, it is simplistic. And...

Is Utilitarianism a Coherent Position to Take in Ethics?

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

The Theory of Utilitarianism

up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...

The Demands of Utilitarianism

the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...

The Development of Utilitarianism

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...