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gotosleep_idiot2010-03-02 06:49 am
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Ethical systems anyone?
Mostly just posting this because I am curious
[Poll #1532678]
Rule based would include categorical imperatives (Lying is always wrong.) and (I shouldn’t pick any flowers because if everyone picked a flower there wouldn’t be any left.) Also deontology, rightness or wrongness derives from the character of the act itself. This category would also include “I don’t want to do this because then the authority will beat the crap out of me.”
Outcome based would include utilitarianism (the greatest good for the greatest people) and (the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few). Also consequentialism, which is that the consequences of a particular act form the basis for the moral judgment of that action. Also includes Hedonism (maximize pleasure), Despotism (maximize power), Pragmatism (maximize satisfaction and adjustment), Existentialism (maximize freedom), and Agapaism (love as the one goal in every situation where we face a choice).
Virtue-based would strive toward the cardinal virtues (Temperance, courage, prudence and justice) and theological virtues (faith, hope and love). It is also possible to strive toward/strive to avoid negative virtues (seven deadly sins). Instead of specific choices determining a person’s ethics, it is long term patterns of behavior that can be observed in individual decisions.
Note: realistically, most people use a little of all three. Choose the one that you think is the main one.
Now for some IC application through a classical problem:
Your stand at a place where one hallway T-ends into another, and an unarmed man comes running toward you. He is out of breath, clearly distressed, and franticly tells you, “I’m being chased by a man who wants to kill me! Don’t tell him which way I went!” And then the man runs down the left hallway.
A few minutes later, a soldier comes into sight, out of breath, clearly furious, and heavily armed, and demands “Which way did that man go?!”
What do you do?
[Poll #1532678]
Rule based would include categorical imperatives (Lying is always wrong.) and (I shouldn’t pick any flowers because if everyone picked a flower there wouldn’t be any left.) Also deontology, rightness or wrongness derives from the character of the act itself. This category would also include “I don’t want to do this because then the authority will beat the crap out of me.”
Outcome based would include utilitarianism (the greatest good for the greatest people) and (the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few). Also consequentialism, which is that the consequences of a particular act form the basis for the moral judgment of that action. Also includes Hedonism (maximize pleasure), Despotism (maximize power), Pragmatism (maximize satisfaction and adjustment), Existentialism (maximize freedom), and Agapaism (love as the one goal in every situation where we face a choice).
Virtue-based would strive toward the cardinal virtues (Temperance, courage, prudence and justice) and theological virtues (faith, hope and love). It is also possible to strive toward/strive to avoid negative virtues (seven deadly sins). Instead of specific choices determining a person’s ethics, it is long term patterns of behavior that can be observed in individual decisions.
Note: realistically, most people use a little of all three. Choose the one that you think is the main one.
Now for some IC application through a classical problem:
Your stand at a place where one hallway T-ends into another, and an unarmed man comes running toward you. He is out of breath, clearly distressed, and franticly tells you, “I’m being chased by a man who wants to kill me! Don’t tell him which way I went!” And then the man runs down the left hallway.
A few minutes later, a soldier comes into sight, out of breath, clearly furious, and heavily armed, and demands “Which way did that man go?!”
What do you do?
no subject
In other words, he's a fanatic.
As to the IC problem? He has no interest in either the man or the soldier. Thus, he has no reason to inform on the man, but nor does he have a stake in seeing the man live. He'd probably find out the "why" behind the whole situation before doing anything.