In Philippa Foot's essay "The Doctrine of Double Effect," she discusses various cases that present a choice between the death of one person or the death of five. ... Therefore, it is more permissible to allow one person to die, rather than five. ... Foot argues that this distinction between positive and negative duties supports why different situations of saving one person vs. saving five result in different perspectives of moral permissibility. ... In considering the other related scenario, the doctors decision to sacrifice one innocent person for the lives of five others i...

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The pleasure that people get from committing social vices varies in quantity and quality depending on whether the person committing the action is a victim of the act of the causality of the actions committed by the victim (Rachels and Stuart, 2012). ... This is similar to what is exists in the current society where terrorist such as the Boko Harram and the Alshabab get happiness and pleasure by killing innocent people. ...

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Varying viewpoints on this issue generally stem from or are influenced by a person's morals, principles or faith. ... Kant advocated a society free from the governance of emotion as he believed it obscured a person's judgement. ... The second maxim states that you must not use a person as a means to an end. ... Through selfless and virtuous action, the person is able to innately make the right decision (Brown, 2012). ... God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human ...

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If there were a situation where a man had a gun to an innocent man, then the best result from that would be for the man with the gun to commit suicide, thus making it permissible in that situation. ... Aristotle wrote that "Now when a person kills himself in a fit of anger, he acts voluntarily in violation of right reason; and that the law does not permit. ... Kant argues that "to destroy the subject of morality in his own person is tantamount to obliterating from the world, as far as he can, the very existence of morality itself; but morality is, nevertheless, an end in itself"...

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I argue that there should be no reason, no matter the situation, that a person should see or know about a situation such as this and not do something to prevent further occurrences; but utilitarianism does not agree. ... Most importantly I hope that I have proven my argument with valid and strong facts as to why Bentham's utilitarianism view on the Penn State scandal should be rejected due to the blindness it shows to the feelings and human rights of the young, innocent boys who were clearly violated of their rights. Morals are the most important aspect of a person in my view and no matt...

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First and foremeost, there is the classic question of whether persons in public administration are good or bad. From here, he differentiates a political person between an administrative person. The political person includes both elected and politically appointed officials while the administrative person is the merit-based civil servant and certain executives appointed on the basis of professional rather than political criteria. ... For the political person, personal gain, with the absence of controls and enforced standards, will precede public interest. ... The story revolves around the d...

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This statement is very difficult to follow; almost no person believes this statement whole-heartedly. ... It gives way for someone to say, if a person is a vegetable, has no vital capabilities, this person's life is of no worth anymore. ... The next commandment of old ethics is, " Never intentionally take innocent human life" (Singer 192). ... This statement allows for a person's right to free will, even a person who is a Christian may more fully agree with this statement just for the pure reason that they want to believe more in God's promise of free will in their life. ... It ...

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