Examples Of Utilitarianism In Georgia

In a New York Times story, “Emmert (NCAA President) said the N.C.A.A., college sports’ governing body, had used lobbyists to oppose the law, called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law, which does not explicitly mention sexual orientation, prevents the state from forcing private individuals or corporations to do business in ways that violate religious beliefs”(Blinder) The opposition of a legally justified law expounding the first amendment right, is by no means related to sports, and is outrageous to think that taxpayers (through paying state taxes, and the state schools paying the NCAA), indirectly pay for opposition of their state governments is an egregious act. This is not the only time, where the NCAA has interjected into the political arena. As USA Today reported, “The NCAA announced on Monday the relocation of seven previously awarded championship events — including NCAA tournament games in Greensboro — from the state of North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year as a result of the state's controversial House Bill 2.(Blinder)” It is intriguing that the NCAA is sanctioning a state, especially with a state with such deep basketball roots as North Carolina (specifically the monetary role North Carolina has) instead of hashing it out with the state government. The lack of defined respect by the

Mississippi is one of 28, that lacks a non-discrimination protections for individuals on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. Ironically, even as nearly 200 anti-LGBT bills have been proposed in states across the country, supporters of religious freedom laws have argued that religious objectors to same-sex marriage not LGBT individuals are the ones who need protection from government discrimination (Lockhart, 2016). A central tenet of the American way of life is individual freedom. We should be able to make our own decisions about our private affairs without interference from far-right religious organizations that seek to impose a narrow interpretation of the Bible on everyone. Religious groups are able to take tax payers dollars, but also have the right to discriminate in hiring. Thus, organizations could take public funds to run a social program, and then refuse to hire qualified applicants for being the wrong religion, transgender, or

wanted the bill to be vetoed brought the bill to the attention of people throughout the world who were consumers of their entertainment products

Shortly after the White House released information on the deal, Republicans were prompt to dismiss the deal. Senator Lindsey Graham, a potential presidential candidate from South Carolina, even went on

Act utilitarianism is a form of utilitarianism that is derived from the greatest happiness principle of utilitarianism, which is defines as “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (cite, got from lecture slides). Happiness and reverse happiness in this definition stand for pleasure and pain. Act utilitarianism measures the net pleasure of an action. If this net pleasure is positive, the action is morally right, but if this net pleasure is negative, the action is morally wrong. In most situations, act utilitarianism is morally correct, but that is not always the case. In this paper, I will explain how political power can be manipulated through the majority and minorities of a country’s population and how that can lead to the oppression of minorities, but also be morally right under act utilitarianism.

The video shows animal agriculture is the most reason of climate change. It is more pollution than industrial fields. However, I suspect some information in the video. For example, Americans consume average 209 pound of meat per year, so it is unbelievable because they count both meat-eaters and no meat-eaters. They calculate that it need 3.7 million acres to plant grass for raising cow, but it is around 20% total land area in the U.S for agriculture. It shows that animal agriculture waste too much water. I do not think they divide exactly climate, environment, and technology for raising animal. If we raise animal outdoor at hot climate, it would be use a lot of water. If we raise animal on mountain with

In the 2016 Mississippi legislative session, we saw one of the worst pieces of discriminatory legislation in the country pass both houses and swiftly signed by the governor. HB 1523, dubbed the “Religious Liberty Accommodations Act,” allows individuals, religious organizations and private associations to use religion to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) Mississippians in some of the most important aspects of their lives, including at work, at school, in their family life and more. The Jackson City Council had to make it clear that everyone is welcome and should feel safe in our capitol city, the largest city in our state. That is why on June 14, 2016, the Jackson City Council unanimously passed a

The issue of legalizing same-sex marriage is one thing, but denying service to someone because of their sexual orientation is a completely different topic. I think that denying a person a marital ceremony could be because of religious beliefs. However, a person’s sexual orientation does not affect any other person, nor does it affect the way they should be served or treated in a public setting. The United States is a free country so people should be able to express themselves however they want to. If an employee is given the ability to deny service to a person because of something this small, people will eventually be able to deny service to people for all kinds of pointless reasons. We should be uniting together as a state and giving fair treatment to all citizens, instead of discriminating and only offering certain services to people who we see worthy of receiving them. I believe that the government should continue working to get this law vetoed to eliminate more problems in the

A war on freedom is brewing in Indiana because a law that ostracizes LGBTQ community members has been passed. This law is akin to the infamous Jim Crow laws based on the fact it promotes segregation between the LGBTQ and surrounding communities. On March 26, 2015, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed Indiana Senate Bill 101, better known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, into place. Under this law, a person or business owner’s exercise of religion is protected from persecution by the government, a right everyone is entitled to, but bigoted business owners have taken to refusing service to members of the LGBTQ community, claiming they violate their religious beliefs. I believe that this gratuitous allowance of homophobia that infringes

A hot topic in American politics today is the question of civil rights. While a civil right is defined as an enforceable right or privilege, people still have trouble agreeing what should be counted as a civil right. In a recent event, two civil rights that come into contention with each other were gay marriage and religious freedom. A prime example of the conflict was the case of Kim Davis, who denied same-sex couples marriage licenses based on religious freedom. The case showed us that a civil right needs to have limitations so as to not infringe on other constitutional civil rights. In other words, the state should not allow religious freedom to hinder marriage equality. This is what we will examine throughout the

Gay Rights--civil and social rights given to homosexuals in comparison to heterosexuals--is a topic that has been roaring, especially in the conservative state of Mississippi. Because this is such a controversial issue, citizens have a different viewpoints that are deemed “the right way.” Citizens’ viewpoints have grown stronger with the recent passing of Governor Phil Bryant’s initiative “1523.” The legislative measure claims, it is a person’s religious freedom to hire or sell to gay citizens. It is ironic that the measure upholds one person’s freedom but denies another. Since the constitution, America has claimed to be built upon the blessing of liberty for all. However, minorities groups: women, African Americans, immigrants have had to fight to be a part of this liberty. Mississippi’s bill, 1523, dishonors what the constitution upholds. No

Utilitarianism is the argument that all actions must be made for the greatest happiness for the greater number of people (Bentham, 42). However, utilitarianism cannot always be the basis of one’s decisions due to the fact that people need to look out for their own pain and pleasure before consulting others’ wellbeing. I will first explain the arguments of the utilitarianism ideal. Then I willl explain why this argument is unconvincing. Ultimately, I will then prove why people consider their own happiness before considering others. Thus showing the utilitarianism view is implausible due to the need for people to consider their own happiness when making decisions or else they themselves will be experiencing the most pain and unhappiness.

I think that the topic of Utilitarianism is interesting to me since I find myself using the greatest happiness principle throughout an everyday basis.Utilitarianism is defined as the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility.Utilitarianism is essentially whichever action creates the most happiness for the greatest number of people is the right answer. People have considered utilitarianism controversial since not everyone agrees that the greatest happiness principle leads to the right choice,but rather to the wrong decision. The way that we approach this issue could potentially have severe consequences, on issues like immigration reform,campus carry,etc, if not agreed upon with the use of the greatest happiness principle. In this argumentative paper, I will argue that using utilitarianism and the greatest happiness principle would lead to the to the right decision.

When America was founded, it was established on freedom and equality for all people. At first it was just religious freedom, but eventually freedom of speech, press, petition, and more. In time, America began to be known as a “melting pot” of cultures as more and more people came because they wanted this freedom; the more people who came though, the more problems America had. There were too many cultural discrepancies between people, and ultimately America, the country based on freedom and equality, faced challenges concerning diversity.

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