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to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...
In three pages this paper discusses recent legislation in WV that has either been enacted or is pending. Four sources are cited i...
A hypothetical situation submitted by a student forms the basis for this paper consisting of eight pages in which Hawaii's 'three ...
In ten pages this paper presents an historical overview of the New Deal legislation enacted by the administration of President Fra...
despite the optimistic revulsion there is still concern. Research conducted by universities into the level of literacy and numerou...
cooperation in the matter of giving up its weapons of mass destruction. In 1989, President de Klerk decided "to end South Africas ...
included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
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...
In six pages this essay defines utilitarianism and then attempts to answer 'Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarian...
This 5 page paper defines the philosophy of utilitarianism and differentiates between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. ...
rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...
of an action is determined only by the welfare of individuals (2003). It is important to note that this topic involves the environ...
This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...
films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...
offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...
Health Act also established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which under the auspices of the U.S. Departm...
In seven pages a poll in which the question is asked "Do you favor Federal legislation that will promote firearm safety and r...
This paper examines employment legislation in an overview of EC directives' effectiveness in Great Britain in seventeen pages....
Buying a used car is a transaction which is covered by the Sale...
back to Congress on the proposed legislation, either favorably or unfavorably (GovTrack, 2009b). They are first considered in the ...
Another state, Colorado, enacted a petition in 2000 that would allow for the legalization of physician assisted suicide but the ap...
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...
savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...
complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...
is one alternative in deriving a moral theory when considering a variety of philosophical models. Above all, it is simplistic. And...
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...
up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...
the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...