My Virtual Moral Theory

Dhruv Patel

Coming from a world in which many people choose to follow their own morals based on what they believe, I would choose to pursue a life in which I could be more compassionate and care for how my morals affect others. I think the Virtual Moral Theory would have the greatest impact in my life because showing compassion for my actions would benefit the people surrounding me and myself. Kant’s Theory states that one would need to do things in accordance to God, which is true for some people but doesn’t back up many actions that are immoral. For instance, for Atheists, the belief that God isn’t real would give them no sturdy ground to base their actions off of. In my eyes, different groups don’t share the same God. So which actions

An example of this theory is when two siblings are fighting over a piece of cake, the siblings both decide to settle the dispute through a contract which states that only the person to win a game of dice could eat the cake. This is a theory that society primarily follows today in terms of the laws that bind us to the U.S. However, again, it is very difficult to create order in our society even with these laws because there is thousands of crimes being committed daily even with these “contracted” orders. Rachels states in his book The Elements of Moral Philosophy, “...none of us ever signed a “real” contract - there is no piece of paper bearing our signatures” (95). This being a true argument, leads me to believe that if society were given these terms, which they are, there would still be the small number of disobedient members that choose to do as they wish since they have not signed a legal document stating otherwise. I think that the Social Contract Theory is already a part of my daily life because I choose to follow the contract of the legal system, although I haven’t actually signed a legal

This is because the theory is oriented around care and compassion that the world could always use more of. I think that the only thing that could go wrong with this theory is the idea of greed and jealousy causing one to argue that maybe there are many people in the world who cannot accomplish the goals of this theory. I think that there is two ways to go about this, by giving the world and people around us a bit more compassion and by trying to care about our actions before we proceed with them. Rachels states, “Generosity is desirable because there will always be people who need help,” and I agree because there are many people who don’t get the same advantages as us, and this should be a sign that we should help