In the film "Jurassic Park", the character of Ian Malcolm poses his statement to the park's mastermind: "You've stood upon the shoulders of giants to do what you have done. ... In most cases, the creators of such things are unable to identify the possible consequences hence develop effective measures to mitigate on the same. ... The dinosaur defied the security measures thus trampling on the human-built infrastructure causing a lot of destruction. ... In this respect, the film "Jurassic Park", has provided an understanding of responsibility and ethics where responsible behaviors ...

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Pain and pleasure are the only measures of good and evil in this moral theory. ... Since pleasure and pain are the only factors that are able to measure good and evil, every living being has equal rights. ... On page 20 of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, he even goes as far as to say "For certainly no known ethical standard decides an action to be good or bad because it is done by a good or bad man," meaning someone who does not have good character can still be moral if they follow the principle of utility. ... Instead, the motives for utility are, as Mill would say, rooted i...

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The writer effectively uses tone as a rhetorical strategy (ethos) to emphasize the fundamental political conflict that exist in America to educate every students that the way we measure integrity will determine the true success of an individual. ... Rand skillfully portrays Roark's character in the film to state that a man must accept responsibility for his own thinking and his own survival by making conscientious judgment. ... In the film, the writer teaches her audience that one of the ways to measure the integrity of a person is to be true to his self. ... In opposition to the main her...

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He brings up consequences of breaking promises such as trust which plays a big role in a person's moral character. ... By focusing on the consequence of a rule we can better measure if it should be implied in terms of everyone. ...

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Plato's main doctrine is that the world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a more real and perfect realm, populated by entities called "forms" or "ideas" that are eternal, changeless, and in some sense indicative of the structure and character of the world presented to our senses. ... Utilitarianism is a philosophy which emphasizes the principle that the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ...

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The various components of happiness and unhappiness should be comparable in order to be able to measure the two against one another. ... " Utilitarianism is a "consequentialist" moral theory meaning that only consequences matter, not the intrinsic character of acts. ...

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