Ethics, I need some.
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If you're an adult student and your teacher is attractive, I'd refrain from doing that one. Teacher may get the wrong idea...Khell_Sennet post=18.74011.818379 said:
My advice is to write about the new measures to stop piracy. There's sure to be a ton of material about the subject coming up this week.
Interesting story, though. One of my friends in high school had to write an ethics paper, and he chose to write about kicking cats. He wrote such a convincing paper condoning the mistreatment of cats (especially black ones), that the teacher gave him full points and even saved his paper as an example for future students.
Now that is talent.
Homes for the elderly: is it moral to sign your parents up to be looked after by strangers when you have the capability to look after them yourself?
Is it right to kill someone in self defense?
Is the only thing that makes an action moral the intentions behind that moral?
And so on and so on. There really are LOADS of things you could do for this.
Is it right to kill someone in self defense?
Is the only thing that makes an action moral the intentions behind that moral?
And so on and so on. There really are LOADS of things you could do for this.
But then what's the difference between morals and ethics? The two are essentially the same thing. People would just rather prefer to be called unethical instead of immoral.Khell_Sennet post=18.74011.819182 said:
Did that a few months ago... Not sure if there is much else to add except for all the new peopleMyan post=18.74011.818309 said:
I actually did that in my English class the other day and bloody oath it was funny. Half the lesson gone to a bunch of gals ranting about how men are all pigs and so forth.elgringobandito post=18.74011.818280 said:
Just remember, try not to piss off the reader of your writings.
the abortion debate debate?
with modern medical science someone can die (albeit breifly) and come back. clearly that means death is not permenant or that our definition of death is wrong (or that the very concept of "death" is an arbitrary idea, perhaps even life being an idea people came across grasping desperately in the dark for something that makes us different than rocks) the moral and ethical dilemas of even defining life death and what makes a "person" (im including intelligent species other than humans and AI, but perhaps not all humans) making people on both sides of the abortion debate look like idiots (granted, one side would look far more idiotic than the other, but they deserve it because generally speaking they are) or maybe on wearing hats in public on tuesdays, or burning witches.
though censorship is simpler and theres more written on it, its more of an ethical question than a philosophical question and its FAR less likely to scare anybody.
with modern medical science someone can die (albeit breifly) and come back. clearly that means death is not permenant or that our definition of death is wrong (or that the very concept of "death" is an arbitrary idea, perhaps even life being an idea people came across grasping desperately in the dark for something that makes us different than rocks) the moral and ethical dilemas of even defining life death and what makes a "person" (im including intelligent species other than humans and AI, but perhaps not all humans) making people on both sides of the abortion debate look like idiots (granted, one side would look far more idiotic than the other, but they deserve it because generally speaking they are) or maybe on wearing hats in public on tuesdays, or burning witches.
though censorship is simpler and theres more written on it, its more of an ethical question than a philosophical question and its FAR less likely to scare anybody.
But then you don't really have any concept of right or wrong that hasn't been affected by society that you live in, making the two pretty much identical. Your own personal beliefs of what is right and wrong have been caused by society and the values of the time that you live in. Whilst these values may differ between individuals they hinge upon society's values and the influence of other people in your life.Khell_Sennet post=18.74011.819528 said:
To me the only real difference between the two is that Morals are black and white concepts that derive from religion and are either good or bad, with no grey area in between. Ethics on the other hand are far more grey and examine what ought to be done in a certain situation. In reality there's not all that much difference between the two, particularly in the way that the press uses them.
Bleh, what's the difference? Oh, I see there was a post about that. Let me edit this:Khell_Sennet post=18.74011.819182 said:
Society has nothing to do with the nature of ethics or morals. Saying that *anything* is determined by society is just a very dumb way of creating a "chicken-and-egg" problem--if the rules of society are determined by society, then how did the society come to exist in the first place? It's nonsensical.
If you want to get technical you can say that ethics is the philosophical branch that deals with values (and thus forms a basis for how you behave) while morals are specifically the content of your ethical system. In practice, they're identical.
Ethics and morals are both (properly) determined by the requirements for achieving values. A person on a desert island needs ethics (work ethic, in particular) just as much as someone living in New York City.
Everything in life is either a potential value or disvalue to you, so *everything* you do is fundamentally operative in the ethical realm.
Ethics is a difficult problem, firstly I'd advise picking the subject you know the MOST about since you have to present a BALANCED argument from ALL sides, not jsut pros and cons side, you need the bystander's wife's sister's mother's uncles' nephew's cousin's neighbour's gardener's opinion aswell.
A very simple ethical layout (broken down for speed) would be this:
Death penalty:
You need the accused's side. The government's side, the victim's side, the victim's family's side, the accuseds family's side. That just off the top of my head since ethics spreads over a HUGE variety of issues.
A very simple ethical layout (broken down for speed) would be this:
Death penalty:
You need the accused's side. The government's side, the victim's side, the victim's family's side, the accuseds family's side. That just off the top of my head since ethics spreads over a HUGE variety of issues.