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Philosophy Intro to Ethics HW

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1. Consider Aquinas's first principle of natural law: "Do good and avoid evil." If we lived by this principle, we would have to decide what to do in cases where doing good might lead to some lesser evil, or conversely, where avoiding evil might make us lose out on the good.

Besides euthanasia, describe a concrete case of ethical decision-making in which we might need to decide between these two.

2. Is it possible that in protecting Locke's "natural rights" of individuals that we might condemn groups or entire cultures to extinction?

This is exactly the case in the Canadian province of Quebec, where English speakers outnumber French speakers to the point where the government has made it mandatory that children learn French in schools and signs be in French as well as English.

The point is to preserve French culture, despite what language individuals might want to speak. Is this preservation ethically sound, in your opinion?

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