Virtue Ethics Of Carol In The Walking Dead

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Carol is one of the main characters from this show called, ‘The Walking Dead’. She is one of the few survivors from this post-apocalyptic future where zombies are roaming around looking for their next victim. They all stick together for protection, but one of them leads Carol to make a hard decision. Lizzie is a girl who Carol had become a mother too and has suffered a serious psychiatric break, which made her believe that the zombies were misunderstood creatures that were entitled to be treated with respect, even if they weren’t exactly humans. This led Lizzie to turn another girl into a zombie and when Carol failed at trying to help her, she inevitably had to kill her for the protection of the rest. Fictional stories or shows like this one are useful to clarify ethical theories and view different perspectives. For example, how would a consequentialist view Carol’s actions as the ethical thing to do or not? Well, if we were to evaluate her actions from the perspective of a consequentialist, they would say that the consequences produced from her actions are …show more content…

Virtue ethicists emphasize the role of character and virtue when considering what’s moral and what’s not, rather than doing one’s duty or acting to bring about good consequences. Furthermore, a virtue ethicist, such as Aristotle was, would not consider murder to be virtuous because being a murderer is not positive and would not be considered a moral virtue and neither is lying to Lizzie about being mad at her like Carol did. Therefore, they would say that Carol is a murderer, though she wanted to defend the rest, she still killed Lizzie and a virtuous person would not kill and that would be considered more of a vice. Yet, others might argue that it was virtuous of her to do so because she was being just and courageous in defending her people from being murdered and it not doing so she would be a coward which is a vice as

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