DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 1 Life and Death
- Politics and Ethics
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ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 1 Life and Death - Politics and Ethics
There are three basic propositions in standard Utilitarianism (Please be sure to
listen to Mill's audio lecture before joining this threaded discussion)
1. Actions are judged right and wrong solely on their consequences; that is, nothing
else matters except the consequence, and right actions are simply those with the best
consequences.
2. To assess consequences, the only thing that matters is the amount of happiness
and unhappiness caused; that is, there is only one criterion and everything else is
irrelevant.
3. In calculating happiness and unhappiness caused, nobody’s happiness counts any
more than anybody else’s; that is, everybody’s welfare is equally important and the
majority rules.
In specific cases where justice and utility are in conflict, it may seem expedient to
serve the greater happiness through quick action that overrules consideration for
justice. There is a side to happiness that can call for rushed decisions and actions
that put decision-makers under the pressure of expediency.
Here is a dilemma for our class:
You are the elected district attorney. You receive a phone call from a nursing home
administrator who was a good friend of yours in college. She has a waiting list of
3,000 people who will die if they don't get into her nursing home facility within the
next 3 weeks, and she currently has 400 patients who have asked (or their families
have asked on their behalf) for the famous Dr. Jack Kevorkian's (fictitious) sister, Dr.
Jill Kevorkian, for assistance in helping them die. The 3,000 people on the waiting
list want to live. She (the nursing home administrator) wants to know if you would
agree to...