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Prostitution - A Utilitarian Perspective

that its legalization would produce the benefits of a safer society, increased tax revenue, and the empowerment of the individuals...

Genetic Alteration and Ethics

die due to a womans right to choose. Each situation is taken individually but it is really all the same. These situations of human...

Cloning and Stem Cell Research: Ethical Dilemmas

of an action, but there is no obvious reason to suppose that intentions, but not motives, are especially strongly connected to the...

Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Ethics and the Media: Lessons from the Dan Rather Scandal

as President against John Kerry. Rathers broadcast suggested that Bush had received preferential treatment by being allowed to se...

Reflection on the Ethics of Smog

over those ten years it will add to the current level of air pollution in the state. This results in negative effects in terms of ...

Burning CDs/Ethical Issues

and spread of music, but "bad" in that it could, conceivably, destroy the source of this music, the recording industry. However, i...

Why Employers Should Not Be Able to Do Genetic Testing

states have passed legislation making the practice illegal (Schafer, 2001). One would think that ones blood is private as are medi...

Stakeholder and Utilitarianism in Business

undertake the action that make them most people happy. Those considered in the equation will include the customers the employees, ...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

Ethical Analysis of Shell Oil Company

Clearly, the company is obligated to its shareholders, but it also has a responsibility to the people. There are in fact many stak...

Utilitarian vs. Kantian Philosophies

universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...

The Argument for Progressive Taxation

the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...

The Advancement of Women and Barriers to Success

"include the collection and disaggregation of employment related data which make it difficult to ascertain the status of various g...

Unethical Policy: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

policy for dealing with the issue of gays and lesbians serving in the US military was implemented by the Clinton administration as...

Social Work, A Utilitarian Approach

This research paper/essay presents an overview of social work ethics from a perspective based on rule utilitarianism. The ethical ...

Socialness of Marketing and the Impact of Hedonic and Utilitarian Satisfaction

The paper is a summary of two articles on marking dealing with the value of hedonic and utilitarian values, one in the satisfacti...

Set Aside Programs and Morality

the consequences (Honderich, 1995). Thus, in the argument presented above, it would not be necessarily wrong to kill an individual...

Deontological and Utilitarian Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplants

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

False Advertising and Ethical Issues

(Romans & Kiernan, 2002). Of course, that is debatable. Opinion enters the picture, but if a claim can be proven false, then one c...

Workplace Dating and Moral Acceptability of Employer Rule Opposition

with" (Loftus, 1995, p. 34). The relationships are too co-dependent and intimate, and once dating and sexuality is introduced to ...

Hypothetical Senate Terrorism Speech

more than an argument for retaliation. Even her colleague, the Honorable Edgar Egoist senses interment is not the proper democrati...

Utilitarianism View of Prostitution

as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...

Euthanasia and Ethics

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

Utilitarian Views on Homosexuality

Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...

Analyzing Same Sex Marriages Theologically and Philosophically

in our society advocate same-sex marriages vary dramatically. Individuals of the same sex have cohabited throughout history witho...