Animal Rights

  1. Choose a moral issue from within one of the topics that has been addressed in our Ethics Labs other than the first one (animal treatment, death penalty, euthanasia, business ethics). Choosen topic: Animal Rights 2. Present two positions on either side of the...

The privatization of public services

Ethics paper on The privatization of public services, particularly in the scope of scientific research funding, has raised significant ethical concerns regarding biases, transparency, accountability, and access. A research problem is the main organizing principle...

Virtuous Person, Virtuous Citizen

            Initial Post Instructions Each person owes a duty to himself or herself and to the world to study ethics and to engage in thoughtful debate about what is right, and what is wrong. It is this habit of thinking about and...

Famous, rich celebutante

Imagine that there’s a famous, rich celebutante whose Bentley is dangling precariously off the edge of a cliff. Below, past a jagged craggy precipice, a school of hungry hammerhead sharks is circling. The celebutante is frantically tweeting her plight to her millions...

Legally binding will

Imagine you are Mrs. Smith’s lawyer, and you have promised to execute the terms of her will after she dies. Years ago she had you draw up a will leaving her substantial fortune to a famine relief fund. When she dies and you go through her papers, however, you find a...

Relevant aspects of Aristotle’s and Mill’s theories

  Consider the following scenario: A burning building, relatively structurally sound, is engulfed in flames, with 4 small children trapped inside. There are two people who must decide how to respond to the situation: Granny — an 80-year-old misanthropic,...