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A 3 page paper that addresses a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas. These include Socrates’ statement about the unexamined life, the means versus the ends, sacrificing one for the many, and issues about God. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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thoughts, motivations, emotions, etc. It is certainly important to reflect on these aspects but one cannot spend time examining every single thing. Rather, a more global examination would be more
helpful. However, to simply follow along without reflecting and examining why one is doing things is a waste. 2. Sacrificing one life to save 1,000/murder an innocent child to
save 1,000... Utilitarian ethics from John Stuart Mill and others is based on the premise that actions must bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. If it
does so, it is ethical (Kemerling, 2011). Under these ethical premises, all of the actions described in this section would be ethical. When an innocent child is brought into the
picture, humans emotions take over because the child has her entire life before her and many, many people would let their own lives be taken rather than an innocent childs.
However, deontological ethics introduced by Kant, states that the ethics or morality of the action depends on that action itself and not on the consequences. In other words, the ends
to not justify the means. Thus, under this schema, it would not be okay to sacrifice or kill one person to save many (Debatepedia, 2010). There is no
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethical according to all theories. It comes
down to how one perceives right and wrong. It is wrong to develop a plan that will kill twice as many people simply because you life that half better. The
question about aborting one fetus to save another is unanswerable. There must be some reason for the action. Does one have a greater chance of surviving? The question of
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