Reference no: EM133230681
Instruction: For each of the cases below do the following:
-State what you think is right. Explain why.
-State what school of thought you are choosing for each (Virtue ethics, Deontology, Social Contract or Utilitarianism) and why it fits your opinion.
Case scenario 1
Families in your area want to open a special school in your neighborhood. It would give the local kids, including your children, a much better education than anywhere else in the school district. But it is so expensive that only one such school could be open and it would take resources from other schools, causing their educations to be less effective than they otherwise would be. Do you join in the movement to bring that school to your neighborhood?
Case scenario 2
It is the 1990s and steroids in baseball have not been officially banned. You see those on your own team taking them. You know that your competitors are taking them. You know that if you do not take them you are at a competitive disadvantage which could cost you your job, the job you love and have been working incredibly hard every day of the last fifteen years to attain, the job that lets you feed your family and provide for your children's college education. All you've ever done is play baseball and if you lose your position, you'd have to take a minimum wage job which wouldn't allow them the money they need for college. You also know that it will have long-term negative health effects and that it violates the sense of fair play. Do you take the steroids?
Case scenario 3
Suppose an experimental drug is available that would extend the life of people suffering from a debilitating disease. It does not make the life any easier, the symptoms still persist and the suffering that accompanies them increase over time, but they will not die as soon. Your beloved grandmother has the disease, do you try to get her in the study that would get her the drug?
Case scenario 4
Your boyfriend/girlfriend's birthday is coming up. There is a fairly expensive gift that he or she would like and you've been saving for months without his or her knowledge. A friend comes back from a trip to sub-Saharan Africa and tells you about a school there that educates the orphans of AIDS victims. If left to their own, their future is bleak, but this school has an amazing track record of turning around lives and opening doors for them to live long lives of fulfillment and contributing much to their community. He tells you that the school is in financial trouble and that the amount they need just happens to be the amount you save. Do you buy the present or save the school?
Case scenario 5
A family member has lung cancer in large part because of smoking. He knows that the disease will likely kill him if he continues to smoke. Yet, he enjoys smoking so much that he refuses to stop. You could take his cigarettes and destroy them and he'd never catch you because his lack of lung capacity makes him slow of foot. Do you destroy his cigarettes?
Case scenario 6
Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre describes a Case scenarioin which a student came to him during World War II after the Nazis had overrun France. His family was a mother, father, an older brother, and him. The father became a Nazi collaborator and was thrown out of the family. The older brother joined the resistance fighting against the Nazis for the liberation of France and was killed in the fighting. He is the only person his aging mother has in the world. She lives for him. If he left, she would die, allow herself to waste away, alone and broken-hearted. But he burns to avenge his brother's death and wants to oppose the evil of Nazism. At the same time, if he joined the resistance, he would have to travel out of the country for training and be brought back in. He might not even make it there or back to make any difference at all. Should he act to make a huge difference in the life of one person he loves, or act to try to make what would at most be a small difference for the millions of people who live in the country he loves?