The Consequentialist Theory Of Easiest Decisions

Have you eaten breakfast this morning? Put on clean clothes? Did you have a bed to sleep in at the end of your day? For millions of less fortunate around the world, the answer to those questions is no. Knowing this is true, can you continue to go about your day and claim to be a moral and ethical person? In order to obtain the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people, it is clear that you in order to uphold your moral duty; you must contribute to those experiencing poverty.

Dr. Barry Swartz discusses a topic he explores in his book “The Paradox of Choice” written with Kenneth Sharpe. Dr. Swartz examines practical wisdom and the practices currently utilized to mock practical wisdom by bankers, teachers, and doctors. Dr. Swartz is a psychologist who studies the connections between the psychological and the economic communities. Dr. Swartz heads the argument by stating that many people have a general distrust for the specialists who are meant to be working for them such as bankers, doctors, and teachers. He states that this is due to the fact that though most of the population wants to be virtuous they are rarely given the option to demonstrate virtuous behavior.

As per its author of Alienation, Consequentialism, and Society, Railton’s opinion of what a sophisticated consequentialist is:

This analysis includes two articles focusing of the paradox of choice, “More is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth” by Derek Thompson and “The Paradox of Choice” by Barry Schwartz. "More Is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth" started off with an example on jams. Researchers presented many types of jams to attract shoppers. In one experiment six different types of jams were presented for the shoppers, the other experiment presented twenty-four types of jams. There were much more sales for the twenty-four types of jams than the six types of jams. Derek Thompson, the author, went on to explain that having options make us more confident in the choices we make. Another research was conducted, where participants were asked if they would buy the only TV that was at a Best Buy store, even if it was what they were looking for. Only nine percent of the participant said they would buy it, because they want to compare that television to other televisions to see if they are getting a good deal.

Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher considered to be the “central figure of modern philosophy” once said “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason” (plato.stanford.edu). Reason is defined as “the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgments logically” (theoryofknowledge.net). There are two forms of reasoning, namely deductive and inductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning is to form a specific conclusion from a set of general premises. Inductive reasoning, on the other hand, is the formation of a general conclusion from a set of specific premises (sociology.about.com). In both, although the conclusion may or may not be true, the set of

People have relaized that, “[l]aw enforcement agents have offered the suspects the prospect of lighter sentences, money, jobs, and a new identity and life in the United States for them and their family members, but attempts to obtain information have failed”(Preface to “Is Police Brutality a Serious Problem?”, 2004). Some people have made conclusions that with all of these offers, it still is not enough to gather the information they are needing to save other people’s lives. People look at it as a ratio of one life to 100,000 lives. This allows people to justify the brutality used in these cases. In this case, “[i]n 1987 the Supreme Court of Israel outlawed these practices but left open the possibility that torture could be justified in "ticking bomb" situations—when obtaining information could save Israeli lives”(Preface to “Is Police Brutality a Serious Problem?”, 2004). A law was made allowing police to use excessive force, meaning these people did not understand the other ways to get information from someone. The fact that they thought it was so useful, it needed to be a law, really shows how some people do not value life. For instance, “[i]n America, skilled interrogators have generally concluded that the harsh practices associated with the third degree [torture] are less effective in obtaining truthful statements than psychologically oriented techniques

According to the lesson this week, Principle of Utility points that “to the desire for good choices and the connection to the community rather than to the individual”, which means in this type of dilemma, I think the final decision that the police had to make in order to save the hostage and the guerrillas is ethical and reasonable (Week 5 Lesson). The police's main purpose is to save the Israeli hostage as well as the majority of guerrillas. They did try everything they could without harming anyone, but unfortunelaly the plan didn't success. The police now faced with the decision either kill the guerrillas leader or let the hostage and many other innocents die. He did apply Principle of Utility and the end based theory by making a decision

In the following paragraphs, deterrence and rational choice theory, two important ideas, will be discussed. Deterrence theory argues that people are more likely to be dissuaded from committing crimes due to fear of being caught, rather than using a moral sense of what is right and what is the wrong thing to do. The three elements of the deterrent effect of punish relies on the severity, certainty, and celerity of the punishment (Lab, 2016).

Morality tells us that something is morally right if it is morally permissible, and morally wrong if it is morally impermissible, but this does not tell us what actions, if any, are intrinsically wrong, no matter what the circumstances are. The consequentialist view of morality holds that an act is the right one if and only if it produces more good consequences over bad consequences, overall. Again, this does not tell us what actions are good or bad, just that the consequences are the only thing that matters when morally judging an act. In this essay I will argue, from the Consequentialist perspective, that torturing someone, even if this was the only way in which we could obtain information that would save thousands of lives is morally wrong

The poems "Choices" and "The Road Not Taken" addresses the theme of decisions but the way each author portrays everyday choices, differs. In line 13 of "Choices", it states "and be satisfied" the narrator doesn't second guess herself and is just "satisfied" with her choices. An example of a connotative word with a positive aspect is satisfied. The author did not choose enough or adequate she specifically chose that word to convey to the reader that the narrator is content with the choice made. If the author chose a denotative word the reader could have thought about the emotion of the narrator in another way. The poet was sending a message about life to not take it too seriously and over think everything. On the other hand, Robert Frost, author

There are a number of views on environmental ethics. These views consist of individual consequentialists, deontological, and holistic approaches. In addition, this assignment consists of an overview on which approaches or perspectives is most appealing to me, my view on Shue’s principles for achieving fair or equitable distribution of costs for protecting the environment, and the major differences between the holistic and individualistic approaches to environmental ethic. Furthermore, this assignment will discuss these approaches in the order listed above.

This article is about Tesco who was accused to sustain murder of Amazon rainforest by selling meat products that was stolen form the jungle. After few years of investigation, Greenpeace found that the meat was imported to different places like UK’s chain. The complained by Greenpeace proposed that the Brazilian supplier (JBS) causes the meat production to supplies to Tesco from illegally land. Meat products includes “corned beef, tinned mince and steak chunks” and this is all originated from area of the forest. During the investigation, the products have supplied by a supplier JBS. It is a company who was disclosed for declining to adhere with national and international arrangement construct to protect the forest.

(Cohen and Ahn, 2016). The utilitarian reasoning process is hypothesized to be logical and controlled. The individual weighs the features that go into determining objective utility in an unbiased manner. Such reasoning will lead to the objective utilitarian conclusion (Cohen and Ahn, 2016). Since this reasoning process requires the manipulation of information and is under cognitive control, it uses working memory and it often takes time (Cohen and Ahn, 2016).

WFrom the four broad responses, the most associate concept of individual accountability was choice theory. Choice theory explains the likelihood of a person in committing a crime because of benefits. This gives criminal (s) the alibi of committing something unlawful, thus giving advantage through the crime rather than the cost. Choice theory significantly associate with the ideal that a person chooses to commit this crime no matter what the outcome may be. It is possible for the media to drive public opinion and focus by presenting believable news to citizen, which cause the display to be seemed true without doing any further research by the citizen themselves and that not every crime is presented on the news. It is the job of the media to

Humans live in a world in which every day they encounter numerous choices. The way they decide and the outcomes of their decisions define their lives. Their day to day life essentially revolves around the choices they make. As a whole, a community benefits or suffers from the outcomes of its choices. Freedom of choice is the grant to an individual or community to make its own choices out of free will and without restrictions (Pereboom,2003). This is essay will discuss that though freedom choice leads to variety in life, it does not necessarily guarantee satisfaction. It will also argue that although some choice is undoubtedly better than none, more is not always better than less. It will then consider the implications of the paradox of