Moral Hazard A few years ago when Hurricane Katrina wake‚ many people fled the ravaged Gulf Coast were spending disaster relief paid for by taxpayers‚ on tattoos‚ expensive handbags and making trips to their favorite places. In this case the damage has already done and people are using the debit cards issues by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). The debit cards are issued to buy the necessities like food and clothing. But the damage was done and people misused its money. FEMA swore that
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Law and morals Part A Law has been defined by Sir John Salmond as the body of principles recognised and applied by the state in administration of justice. There are two theories on what law is‚ the natural law theory and the positivist law theory Lloyd a natural law theorist defined the law as the constant assertion that there are objective moral principles which depend upon the natural of the universe and can be discovered by reason Natural law theorists believe that for law to be valid it
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MORAL RESPONSIBILITY Moral responsibility is directed not only at judgments concerning right or wrong. Sometimes‚ they are directed at determining whether a person or organization is morally responsible for having done something wrong. Here we are discussing ‘Moral Responsibilty’ as a term which is used to express that a person is to blame for an action. A person is morally responsible only for those acts and their foreseen injurious effects which
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another person without sacrificing themselves in helping that person‚ than that person should help. Singer also argues that if people did act upon principle our lives‚ our society‚ and our world would fundamentally change. Singer first argues that distance and proximity shouldn’t be taken into account when it comes to helping. He argues that it makes no moral difference whether the person you help is a neighbor ten yards away or a person in another country (Singer‚ 1972‚ p. 231-232). Singer also
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Moral Relativism: A Contradictory Idea Julian Watson Intro to Philosophy Moral relativism is the belief that there are no moral absolutes‚ and that morality (as a concept) is something that exists only in the mind of the individual. In theory‚ it’s an appealing philosophy‚ but when applied to serious issues on a global scale then you begin to create problems that generally lead to chaos and complete anarchy. In this paper‚ I will break down why Moral Relativism is
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Philosophical ethics are an attempt to define moral action. Theories try to answer questions such as ‘what is a moral action?’ and ‘how should men act?’ In the case of classical theories the main question is ‘What is the good life? We all grow up learning our ethics‚ or morals‚ from our parents and society. As we grow we are told things; do not cross the road alone‚ clean your room. But there are a set of instructions that we are told‚ and we grow to learn that they have quite a different motive
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The difference between moral theory and moral code is that moral theory is what makes an action right and moral code is a set of rules. My personal‚ every day ethical decisions been based upon a particular moral code. The moral code I live by is be good to others. Ever since I was younger my teachers and parents would tell me to treat people the way you want to be treated and if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say nothing at all. When I was younger I didn’t take these rules very seriously
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Moral Absolutism a) Explain what is meant by Moral Absolutism. (25) Moral absolutism is an ethical theory which believes that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged‚ and that certain actions are either right or wrong. Moral absolutists might‚ for example‚ judge slavery‚ war‚ dictatorship‚ the death penalty‚ or child abuse to be absolutely immoral regardless of the situations or beliefs of a culture that engages in these practices. Moral absolutism adopts the theory
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Moral action - Doing something that is right in spite of opposition from others Adam Hochschild’s King of Leopold’s Ghost is the story of no other than European ruler King Leopold II of Belgium‚ and the Congo‚ in which he took ownership of. He later became in control of one of the largest colonies in Africa due to his manipulating ways and tricks. Moreover his Congo‚ mostly the white authorities‚ forced some villages in Africa into harsh labor‚ where they were punished for wrong behavior‚ and in
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THE MORAL ARGUMENT How do we explain the fact that people often refrain from immoral acts even when there is no risk of their being caught? There are many formulations of the moral argument but they all have as their starting point the phenomenon (fact) of moral conscience. In essence the moral argument poses the question: where does our conscience‚ our sense of morality come from if not from God? It also asserts that if we accept the existence of objective moral laws we must accept the existence
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