One positive moral rule people tend to think has few exceptions is stealing. People believe stealing is morally wrong because you are taking something that is not yours which often results in harm to the owner. This could be emotional harm if the stolen object had great meaning to the person. It could also result in financial harm as the person now has to replace what has been stolen. If a person or business is stolen from it may also cause them to feel unsafe. These are all reasons why people believe it is wrong for a person to steal, of course it also goes against the law, but I am speaking to its morality, not legality. There are three circumstances when there can be an exception to this rule, unlike moral absolutes which are exceptionless. The first example is when a parent …show more content…
While it may be against the law, it is admirable that the parents try every route necessary to provide their children with food as it is their duty as parents to care for their children. Another example of an exception to this rule is a husband who steals a $5,000 medication from the pharmacy because without it his wife will die and they cannot afford to pay for it. People would believe this to be an exception because it can be argued that the wife’s life is worth more than the $5,000 the pharmacy will lose. A third example is a who mother steals a valuable necklace from her rich family member in order to pawn it for money because her daughter has been kidnapped and the kidnapper is demanding $20,000 by the end of the day for her return. He insists that if the mother includes other people in the matter or calls the police he will get word of it and hurt the
Is it okay to steal if you're poor and starving? It's okay to steal if you need to in order to survive or to help yourself or others in a time of need. The Joads, along with many other families, decided to move west but they only had a limited amount of money. If something came up, like if their car broke down, they would have to steal or bargain to fix it. They had no other choice because they had no one else to turn to or no where else to go. Sometimes people steal just because they don't want to pay for something even though they're capable of paying for it. Some people steal to help other people and in someway it's good and some it's bad.
Yes, there can be different moral rules for different ethnic and cultural groups. Every culture should be allowed to follow their own set of moral rules to a certain extent .
asks “What are the costs?” and “What are the benefits?”. According to rule consequentialism, rules are selected entirely based on the goodness of their consequences and proceeds to claim that these rules govern what kind of acts are morally wrong. Basically, the rightness or wrongness of an action is contingent on whether it is obligatory or prohibited by an ideal set of rules. An ideal set of...
An action is morally good if and only if it promotes my personal happiness and it is morally wrong if and only if that action hinders my personal happiness.
What makes an act moral? The reality is that there is no right answer. Different experiences and cultures an individual would identify with will naturally dictate the moral reasoning he/she would act upon. However, certain situations can only be regarded as either moral or immoral. This is shown primarily through the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. He argued that acts such as killing or lying are never justified and one must uphold that in order to be a moral individual. When Dr. Kevorkian decided to assist his patients in committing suicide he was ultimately responsible for the murder of 130 patients. Not only did he commit acts that are morally wrong, but also contradicted his oath as a physician. In this incident, there was no exception or
It is morally permissible to do an illegal act if the action is morally right and good. An action could be morally right and illegal at the same time, when it represents the lesser of two evils, or when the intentions of the person performing it are noble and have for goal to achieve his duty. An action can be morally right, but still illegal because in a situation where there is no good option, the lesser of two evils is the morally best option to do, even if it is illegal (Thomson 39). For example, in Dallas Buyers Club, Ron Woodroof acted rightly by choosing the lesser of two evils: sell illegal drugs to help AIDS patients feel better and live longer, instead of letting them suffer and die (Dallas Buyers Club). If he would have chosen to obey the law, a great number of AIDS patient would have suffered more and died of their illness, and he would have been guilty of not helping them according to the Harming by Omission Thesis (HOT) and the Equivalence of Evil Thesis (EET) (Mieth 17). These thesis affirm that omitting to help someone in need would be as bad as hurting the person directly. Thus, Woodroof acted in a morally permissible way even if he broke the law because he chose the lesser of two evils (Matheny 16). Also, someone can act justly e...
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay, A Letter from Birmingham Jail he compares the issues of Moral acts verses Immoral acts. This essay was written in response to a letter some clergymen had written after a direct action march Dr. King had participated in. In their letter the clergymen had praised the local police officers and media for the nonviolent and calm manner in which the situation was handled. It was this praise that prompted Dr King to write:
Source code is the lifeblood of all high tech software organizations. If it falls into the wrong hands, a company will very likely experience damagingly costly repercussions. As a result, most tech companies invest a relatively large chunk of their revenues into network security.
Moreover, in consequentialist normative principles " it require us that we first tally both the good and bad consequences of an action." Then, identify if the "total good consequences outweigh the total bad consequences." If based in our analysis the good "consequences are greater," then "the action is morally proper. In the given situation, stealing for food for a hungry child suggest plenty of good consequences when we try to focus on the true and good intention of the agent. We may think that he is good because he/she is trying to save only the boy from hunger or even from tragic death. Thus, millions of children around the world had died because of
The Natural Law stated that humans have a moral knowledge/reason that makes us able to decide what’s right. This has caused various debates on whether people did the right because it was the right thing to do or whether they did it because that’s
I feel certain things are morally right and others morally wrong. As a society we have accepted the idea of this cut and dry way of thinking. When harm is done to an individual it is seen as morally wrong. When something is done to enhance a person's life then this act is seen as morally right. The way people think is different from one another but the general idea of our way of thinking is the same. One is allowed their opinion and way of thinking but is not allowed the right to do harm to others; this is seen as morally wrong in our society.
This article mainly focuses on the ethics and its importance in the daily life and the need of the ethics to the individual and to the society. It mainly focuses on the ethical theories; consequence based theory, duty based theory, contract based theory and character based theory and how these theories are implemented for the copyright infringement i.e. the free access of the copyright material. It explains all the four types of theories in detail with examples and how these are implemented for the given topic. The modern ethical approach has been given based on the four ethical theories and the recommendations based on the outcome of the four theories. It is followed by the conclusion and the references.
With the popularity of the Internet, sales for CDs, DVDs, Movies, and many other products have increased. Along with the increase of sales has brought forth an ever increasing problem of illegal media being downloaded. Programs such as Bittorent, Kazaa, and other direct-connect networking programs have allowed the transferring of such illegal media. Downloading song files from the Internet over a free peer to peer network is the moral equivalent of shoplifting music CDs from the local mall.
Two controversial theories that support the moral concept of right and wrong are ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism. As define ethical subjectivism deals with the subjects attitudes and proposition of what is true. In short it’s their feelings about their behavior. When placed in a situation the afterthought of “was that right, I’m glad I do it” or the opposite, “that was wrong, I shouldn’t have done it” is eliminated, as these are not thought but is a reflection upon their thoughts but of their rational behavior and for this reason third parties denunciation is rejected. This makes room for one to argue that they are acting in moral perspective, as it’s clear in black and white as to why the act of stealing the bread was don...
the Golden Rule approach. We are told that it is right to be moral. This is an