premise of utilitarianism is we have a moral obligation to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people (Mill‚ p. 364) and Peter Singer believes we have a moral obligation to help others less fortunate than we to the extent at which no more moral good comes of comparable significance to the bad thing that we “ought” prevent (Singer‚ p. 874). How is it that we are somehow philosophically indebted to society and required to alleviate suffering? Can such an obligation even be construed moral
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Surviving Famine: The Kantian Dilemma Say your family and you are struggling to meet your basic needs such as food during a harsh famine. Your basic instinct is to acquire food by any means necessary. One way you could get food is by stealing it from your neighbor. In this essay I will examine whether this issue is morally right. I will argue that by using Kant’s End in itself theory‚ stealing food from your neighbor in time of famine is morally wrong. Kant’s end in itself theory is stated
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Ethics Assignment 3 Lizzie Cattell In the essay “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” author‚ Peter Singer‚ exercises his theory about everyone’s moral obligation to help world hunger. Every day people make choices‚ whether it be what pants to wear‚ what food items to buy at the store‚ or whether or not you donate money to those suffering. Across the world there are avoidable sufferings according to Singer as long as people do their part; “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening
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killing himself to be with her? His worst decision was not considering the consequences of his actions before he was facing them. Juliet is also responsible for the outcome of the situation. She was not as directly responsible but she added mistakes of her own to the problem. The same flaw in them both about love being all powerful and instant manifests itself in her the first night they meet and even more so
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Others tried to survive off of human flesh and resorted to cannibalism‚ and lastly some decided to take their own lives and end their own suffering. At the time the chinese were unaware of the impact that Mao Zedong would have and by the time they did they could not escape. In Frank Dikotter’s‚ Mao’s Great Famine‚ the author reveals the true horrors of Great Leap Forward stating that“...even as every promise was broken‚
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Extreme global poverty is a problem that affects a large percentage of the world’s population and will continue to spread until serious action is taken against it by the wealthier nations. However‚ the amount of obligation‚ if any‚ that countries feel they have to deal with such a problem is a main source of controversy and one of the reasons why poverty is taking so long to be reduced. This obligation to help others introduces the concept of utilitarianism. In general‚ this idea requires an individual
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London Visual Impairment ForumMinutes and Action points‚ Planning Group EGMFriday 11th November 2011Chair for this meeting : Peter Corbett (PC) (Thomas Pocklington Trust) Vice Chair: Jackie Venus (JV)(VISOR) not presentPresent: Colin Brown(CB) (BIG); Sharon Schaffer (SS)(LVIF) Fran Hibbert (FH) (Merton Vision); Peter Corbett (PC) (Thomas Pocklington Trust) Mike Woolston (MW) (Guide Dogs); John Harris (RLSB)‚ David Newbold (Action) ; Stan Lopes (LB Camden)Apologies: Sue Sharp (SuS0 (RLSB); Sue O’Hara
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World hunger is an issue that should affect us all. Everyone has felt hunger pains‚ or claimed that they are “starving” if it’s been a while since their last meal. But most of us have never experienced real hunger - chronic hunger. Chronic hunger means not having enough daily nutrition to meet the requirements for days‚ weeks‚ or even months. It means being too weak to fight off disease‚ and dying from common infections. It means kids going blind from a lack of Vitamin A‚ or having brittle bines
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wonderment of there time. They were far ahead of any Indian civilization of that time era. They were cliff-dwelling people who where very knowledgeable in architecture‚ astronomy‚ and farming. They had built houses on the sides of cliffs that were more then 5 stories tall with plenty of space and even had religious meeting areas. They had a system for tracking the movement of the sun and the moon and also created a calendar that could track the summer and winter solstices and even the 19 year cycles
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Assess the impacts of human activity on one or more deserts Human activity is becoming more prolific in deserts in recent years as governments are seeing the important resources that the desert offers. Mining and mineral exploitation‚ farming‚ tourism‚ and growing populations have had both positive and negative effects on desert environments‚ providing both income for local communities but also affecting the desert ecosystem by depleting water and nutrient supply. Deserts in the US‚ Middle East
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