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    One of the important issues discussed nowadays is the World Poverty. There are many disagreements between experts in this domain, whether rich nations are morally obligated to help poor nations, whether helping the Poor by giving them fish instead of a fishing rods is a good solution? The question is why these disagreements occur? My main thesis is that disagreements between experts occur because of three main reasons, first of all each of expert can use different ways of knowing in order to explore

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    There are three questions being asked in utilitarianism approach. First, what is the supreme principle of morality? In this case, as stated in the book, utilitarianism is consequentialist moral theory which focused on consequences that promote the good for the greatest number of people (Harper 23). By analyzing a case study about nuclear weapon, there is not many good consequences for majority of people. Nuclear weapon project does provide some new jobs for unemployed or currently employed, but that

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    Do the end justifies the means? In this essay I will be answering the question 'do the ends justify the means in the case of terrorism?' In other words, does the final outcome justify the way the final outcome was reached? For example, if a man stole bread from a shop in order to feed his family did he do the right thing?However, today we are going to talk about a very important topic that has been debated for decades: Terrorism. Also because the benefit come at the cost of a great amount of death

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    A consequentialist is defined by Shafer as, “in the motto that defines the consequentialist outlook: do as much as you can”, (Landau, 2010, p. 117). A consequentialist believed that acts are done in order to maximize the amount of goodness in the world (Landau, 2010, p. 118), but it is a faction of them that believe it is more it is more the greatest good for the greatest number (Landau, 2010, p. 120). These people are called utilitarian’s while they sometimes have a interest way of evaluating moral

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    Justice and Consequentialism One of the biggest criticisms of consequentialism is that it seems to go against the principles of justice. This essay will set out to prove that the prima facie lack of justice present in consequentialist moral structures does nothing to impugn the legitimacy of consequentialism as an ideology, evidenced by the ease with which consequentialism may include principles of justice, but also the demonstrable lack of necessity to include principles of justice at all. The

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    conditions are completed. There are 4 main issues that being raised from this article. One of the main issues that can be raised from this article is consequentialism. Consequentialism is the kind of normative ethical theories holding that the results of one's administration are the final basis for any judgment about

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    Woul Consequentialism

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    This article is about Tesco who was accused to sustain murder of Amazon rainforest by selling meat products that was stolen form the jungle. After few years of investigation, Greenpeace found that the meat was imported to different places like UK’s chain. The complained by Greenpeace proposed that the Brazilian supplier (JBS) causes the meat production to supplies to Tesco from illegally land. Meat products includes “corned beef, tinned mince and steak chunks” and this is all originated from area

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    Act consequentialism is the philosophical belief that an action is right if it brings about the best consequences or state of affairs out of all of the actions that are available to an agent. For example, a man comes to your house and tells you to tell him where your father is so that he can kill him. The act consequentialist would say that it is perfectly acceptable to lie about the whereabouts of your father in order to save his life. This is because telling the truth would result in your father’s

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    In ethics, there are two main theories, the theory of consequentialism and deontologism. Deontologism states the justification of an action is based off of the action. This means that if the action that needs to be taken for something even greater happen is bad, then it is not rational and should not occur. Consequentialism on the other hand, states that in order to justify an action, the result positivity must outweigh the negativity caused by the action. Singer’s view on consequentialist, the

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    Consequentialism is a theory that suggests that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences. In this case, this is what the greater good is defined as; a decision made that would positively impact the majority of a community and would lead to further progression. For the greater good to be achieved, one must do a little wrong. Now, what is defined as wrong? How do we tell the difference from right and wrong? To what extent must one go to, for their actions to be defined as

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