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Ethical Reasoning
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The Role of EthicsThe role of ethical reasoning is to highlight
acts of two kinds: those which enhance the well being of othersand
those that harm the well being of others.
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Do good things dont do bad things
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Your CommentsWhat universal principles could be defined as bad
things?
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How about these bad
thingsSlaveryTortureSexismRacismMurderFraud
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Human beings naturally develop into narrow-minded, self-centered
thinkers.
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Research shows that ethics is a function of age and education.
Why do you think that would be true?
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All human beings tend to think as themselves as good and their
enemies as evil.
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Common ConfusionsPeople often confuse ethics with pseudo-ethical
groups like social rules, religion or the law.
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Four Ethical Groupings
Universal Ethics helpful or harmful behavior towards living
creaturesSocial Ethics customs & taboosReligious Ethics
theological debateLegal Ethics codified laws developed from social
customs
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Pseudo-Ethic GroupsUniversal EthicsSocial RulesReligious
BeliefsThe Law
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Ethics & Social RulesThe KKK viewed hangings as a Christian
obligation to keep the races pure.For one hundred years America
considered slavery justified or desirable.
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Your CommentsWe live in a world of powerful social rules where
big money is spent to sway your opinion.
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Tendencies of Social RulesTaboos about exposing body partsTaboos
about equal rightsSupport religious persecutionsConservatives value
private property, status quo & familyLiberals value liberty,
equality, and social justiceEthics must trump social rules
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Ethics and ReligionThere are over 300 religions in the world
today.
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Tendencies of religionsThey represent social preferencesUsed
torture to save peoplePretend beliefs are self-evidentOften
unethical practices of sexism, racism, fraud, intimidationEthics
must trump religion
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Ethics and The LawTake care of your friends and kill your
enemies.Don Young
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Tendencies of lawsLaws emerge out of social rulesTo criminalize
behavior against social rules regarding women, homosexuals,
slavery, and now drug use are common ways for politicians to get
re-electedEthics must trump the law
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Know the games you playI did not have sex with that woman
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President Bush, 2002We must rid the world of evil.You are either
for us or against us.Now is the time to draw a line in the sand
against the evil ones.
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