The Standards Of Authoritarianism For Recovering Of The Titanic Disaster

When engineers decide to design a product, a lot of things get into the process of decision making when it comes to design, selection of materials and the process of manufacturing. A major concern that has always been in the process of decision making is attempting to ensure that the outcomes of the product will be ethically sound, though this is not the case always. Nobody is perfect and therefore, what they do is to try out the functionality of a product, and accidents may occur. Upon any eventuality of an engineering disaster, several factors may be involved, such as design flaws, material failure, extreme conditions, and human factors. Whenever these things happen, it is necessary to look into the engineers ethical aspects of every failure

Looking at them from a variety of ethical perspectives is important. However, this paper will look at the standards of authoritarianism for this focus at the sinking of the Titanic. The action aim is the creation of largest balance possible over greatest happiness or pain, for the most significant number of people. In other words, every single decision ought to result in happiness for most people, It results in making it a form of consequentialism, where the consequences of conducts of one are an ultimate base for possible judgment about that conduct’s rightness. Jeremy Bentham came up with an algorithm for determining the amount or degree of pleasure caused by a particular action. He referred to this as Hedonic Calculus, and it was partitioned into seven categories. Jeremy has further based the calculation on of the pleasure intensity, the duration of the pleasure, certainty of comfort, the similarity of fun, fecundity that will be followed by fun, the probability of the reverse occurring and the extent of the affected people. The paper will try to allocate some of the Titanic major failures into these categories, to establish the ethical ground of the engineers that were responsible for the Titanic (Haeffele, Dubois & Sire,

The Titanic’s flash also made it an expensive ship to construct. In cutting on the projected costs, the rivets made were of two different materials. One of the rivet material was stronger than the other. The steel rivets were only used in the central hull where the engineers believed required the strongest rivets. The other weak iron rivets were used in the bow and stern of the ship. The integrity was lost when the small metal quality was used because they ended up to become brittle when exposed to freezing water, like the one Titanic would be traveling through, In applying the utilitarianism to the decision, it is evident that the action was not real. The pleasure duration would only last until when a threat tried to break the weak rivets, however, this is where one would want to experience pleasure. Unfortunately, the happiness would likely not last long in the life of the ship, or it would happen so suddenly, so certainly is wrong. It is unlikely that the cutting costs pleasure would be subsequently followed by other pleasures. Therefore, purity and fecundity would decline (Basset,