Consequentialism Vs Ethics

The presidential debates of 2016 will be remembered years to come. These debates were not like any we have seen before, and possibly never again. Consequentialism vs ethics correlates directly with the fact that all politians lie to some degree; we just must use our personal ethics and subjective knowledge to determine which lies we can live with and what is best for our country. Second chances play an enormous role in this campaign, especially when we are talking about illegal immigrants and Trumps wall. Trump came up with some original arguments and Clinton piggy backed off him, although they disagreed about almost everything. Kenneth E. Boulding said “Each of us possesses a store of subjective knowledge about the world, a collection of ideas we believe to be true” (Political Communication), this is what shapes our ethics, morals, and integrity, and it is unique to each individual grounded by their culture, religion, race, gender, upbringing, and anything else that has shaped them into the person that they are today.

The slides says thinking fast “automatic, intuitive, and largely unconscious mode of thinking and uses association and metaphor to produce quick drafts/interpretations of reality” and thinking slow provides a more analytical and conscience effort. Kahneman states that “System 1’s associative memory and judgment generating processes will always try to make some sense of the information that is at hand rather than considering what other information might be worth gathering to make better sense of it. Kahneman argues that this results in an unfortunate tendency to substitute the question that is really being faced with a different one that is consistent with the available information (Peter,