Ethics, I need some.

[Limos]

Greetings and bienvenue fellow Escapists.

Just moments ago I was informed that I needed to write a paper on Ethics. Or more accurately a paper on an ethical problem. Now this presents a conundrum as I find that I have no ethics. Or at least none that I can recognize as such.

So I come here, tell me O' Escapists. What ethical question should I write my paper on?

(Note: We have already been informed that Abortion, and Gay Marrige are not topics we can use.)

 

[crimson5pheonix]

How about the ethics of the death penalty? What about the ethics of a socialist state?

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Yeah death penalty sounds like a good topic.

 

[Amnestic]

"How a number of ethical systems may have stopped the second world war if Hitler had listened to them"

Quite like crimsonh5pheonix's (you spelt Phoenix wrong) idea for the Death penalty.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[klakkat]

Huh. Well, that's a tall order. I guess I'll have to start at the beginning.

Ethics comes from a system of personal values. You will discover your own ethical alignment by carefully considering what you value in relative order.

Now then. For topics, I guess I can suggest a few. First of course is Censorship, an ever-present annoyance in the 'states, which is thankfully usually limited by region. If you think it isn't present, just think what content you can't see on network television and also look at how many books are banned.

let's see... United States foreign policy is always an option, if you feel like taking leave of your sanity whilst researching

More in our area of specialty, does violence and sex depicted in video games corrupt our children? or some variant of that issue.

Combined with the above topic, are video games any worse than other media, such as television, books, movies, and comics, with regards to corrupting children?

and that's all I got for now...

 

[crimson5pheonix]

"How a number of ethical systems may have stopped the second world war if Hitler had listened to them"

Quite like crimsonh5pheonix's (you spelt Phoenix wrong) idea for the Death penalty.

yeah I know, it's spelled wrong on purpose because when I signed up of XBL, crimson5phoenix was taken.

 

[Myan]

How about assisted suicide for the elderly or terminal?

 

[klakkat]

Suicide for the terminal is allowed to an extent, essentially the point where if they would die without medical aid, they can refuse medical aid (or end it) and thus die. I only know because a cousin of mine did this about a year ago. Still, a good topic for ethical debate, you could also extend it to "should the medical community have to supply aid to terminal patients that can't afford it?" (my opinion is no, but we're not here to talk about me, are we?)

 

[klakkat]

Why are you not allowed to write about abortion or gay marriage? Sounds like they are scared of people offending religious fundies.

Well, that, and that the two have been beaten like a zombie horse over the last decade or so.

 

[jim_doki]

keep it simple. Kill the doctor to save the village?

 

[Johnn Johnston]

keep it simple. Kill the doctor to save the village?

Bingo. Putting the needs of the many before the needs of the few - along the lines of the "Kill x to save large integer of y."

 

[Amnestic]

-Sex and Schooling, if a teacher has a sexual relationship with an adult student, is it a conflict of interests or is the teacher's personal life not the school's business?

Clarify for me: Student in the teacher's class or just student at the same institution?

 

[Altorin]

Ethics in Video Game Journalism.

Someone posted a blog about it a while back.

 

[NeedAUserName]

-Unwilling Test Subjects, the ethics behind using life-sentence prisoners for medical experimentation.

They can/do do that? Although I suppose you mean in America, (Im British)?

 

[JMeganSnow]

-Unwilling Test Subjects, the ethics behind using life-sentence prisoners for medical experimentation.

They can/do do that? Although I suppose you mean in America, (Im British)?

No, no they cannot. Geez.

There is no situation in life that does not contain an ethical element. It shouldn't be that hard to find a topic.

 

[NeedAUserName]

-Unwilling Test Subjects, the ethics behind using life-sentence prisoners for medical experimentation.

They can/do do that? Although I suppose you mean in America, (Im British)?

No, no they cannot. Geez.

WOW sorry.

 

[Sccye]

A good classical question is always the Euthyphro dilemma: Is something good in and of itself, or merely good because society says it is?

You get to invoke Plato and the ancient Greeks, and then just launch straight into a typical discussion of relativism versus absolutism (Or meta-ethics if you prefer.).

Anything as open as an 'ethics paper' is a veritable gift from God.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

DRM, Copyright, Piracy, Evil Lawyers...

 

[black lincon]

you could always make up an ethics issue and claim its from Mozambique or something, my teachers wouldn't look it up. but if you cant be pressed to make up an ethical issue, try super evolution(look it up, its a hilarious theory).