Do you believe the decision/action/resolution was ethical? Explain the decision-making process. Analyze your example within the context of the differing approaches to ethics discussed in Mill, Kant and Gilligan. How did the readings help you think about the situation from a new or deeper perspective?

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Ethical Decision Making

College life brings with it a new set of opportunities and challenges. You have entered a community of peers; some of you are living away from home without the everyday guidance and support of parents, family and friends. You are encountering a degree of diversity in everyday living to which you are probably not accustomed. And academically, expectations have changed dramatically. College faculty do not see themselves as disciplinarians and there are no school principals monitoring your activities and attendance. You are on your own, managing your time, negotiating choices and relationships, and dealing with a more complicated set of academic expectations and responsibilities. In every setting – dorm, classroom, college activities and work – you must balance your needs with obligations to yourself and to others. And this means that you are involved in ethical decision making.

In a 4-5 page essay, discuss a real situation you have encountered this semester which had an ethical component or dimension – that is, where you had to negotiate your own interests, values and needs within the context of the needs and/or expectations of others. You can use an example taken from your own experience, current events, the readings or class discussion. Do you believe the decision/action/resolution was ethical? Explain the decision-making process. Be sure to analyze your example within the context of the differing approaches to ethics discussed in Mill, Kant and Gilligan. How did the readings help you think about the situation from a new or deeper perspective?

Address all 4 bioethical principles thoroughly and draw important connections among related issues. Include analysis of relevant case laws to the topic, support writings with court cases and literature where applicable.

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Ethics of Patient-Physician Relationships , doctor and patient confidentiality pertaining to ethics of consent, communication and decision making.

Address all 4 bioethical principles thoroughly and draw important connections among related issues. Include analysis of relevant case laws to the topic, support writings with court cases and literature where applicable. Provide insightful reflection on the topic with meaningful discussion overall. Writing should be clear, concise, and professional in style.AMA formatting double spaced.

Do humans have a moral obligation to modify our lifestyle in order to recognize the moral status of nonhuman others? Do you believe any of the nonhuman animals mentioned above would qualify as moral subjects, and perhaps even moral agents?

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Ethics week 5 discussion

Select one of the three prompts below to respond to in your initial post this week. You are encouraged to respond to peers that explored prompts that you did not.

Prompt #1

Discuss the implications of moral consideration on some of the following practices involving nonhuman animals: meat-eating habits, pet ownership, the use of nonhuman animals in experimentations, and keeping animals in zoos.

In what ways, if any, do any of the above actions represent incompatible, even contradictory, moral values?
Do humans have a moral obligation to modify our lifestyle in order to recognize the moral status of nonhuman others?
Do you believe any of the nonhuman animals mentioned above (pets, farmed animals, zoo animals, etc.) would qualify as moral subjects, and perhaps even moral agents?
Which ethical theory (utilitarian, social contract, Kantian, etc.) is most consistent with your outlook on animals?
(USLOs 5.1, 5.2, 5.3)

Prompt #2

Discuss the implications of meat-eating nonhuman animals in relation to moral consideration.

Is it morally permissible to raise and kill animals to eat them in our society, where nutritious alternatives to animal foods are readily available?
If we were somewhere where there were inadequate non-animal foods, would that make a difference to the morality of using animals for food?
Which ethical theory (utilitarian, social contract, Kantian, etc.) is most consistent with your outlook on consuming animals?
(USLOs 5.1, 5.2, 5.3)

Prompt #3

Discuss the implications of having moral obligations toward animals.

Select one philosopher discussed either in the text or supplemental materials and discuss their perspective regarding moral obligations toward animals.
Do you believe we have any moral obligations toward animals? If so, what is the extent of these obligations? Why do we have these obligations (if we do)?
Are there different obligations toward different animals? Might certain uses of some animals be morally permissible, whereas using other animals in similar ways would be wrong? (E.g., might some experiments be wrong if done on chimpanzees, whereas morally permissible, or perhaps “less wrong,” if done on mice?

What ethical issues relate to the cybersecurity threat discussed in the case study? How do you see the importance of applying a deontological or consequentialist approach to addressing cyber threats that transcend national boundaries not only now, but into the future?

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North Korea and the Sony Hack

https://www.eastwestcenter.org/system/tdf/private/api117.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=35164

What ethical issues relate to the cybersecurity threat discussed in the case study?
How do you see the importance of applying a deontological or consequentialist approach to addressing cyber threats that transcend national boundaries not only now, but into the future?
How might a pluralist approach to ethics be employed to further develop and implement an effective international agreement on cyber norms?

How are media representations connected to power and colonization? How does The Exiles, Harold of Orange, or Powwow Highway connect to the lived experiences of Native American communities in the 20th century?

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Shifting representations of Native Americans in film

Compare the shifting representations of Native Americans in film by choosing Stagecoach, The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, or The Redman’s View–and compare it to The Exiles, Harold of Orange, or Powwow Highway. How are media representations connected to power and colonization? How does The Exiles, Harold of Orange, or Powwow Highway connect to the lived experiences of Native American communities in the 20th century? Why is it important to have Native American actors and stories represented in film? Connect your response to at least one class reading.

Why did the case spark so much controversy? Did Reed Walters, the district attorney, overcharge the six African American students? Should the white students who hung the nooses in the tree have been charged with hate crimes?

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Jena Six

Research on the Jena Six. Why did the case spark so much controversy? Did Reed Walters, the district attorney, overcharge the six African American students? Should the white students who hung the nooses in the tree have been charged with hate crimes?

What are some examples of the ways that modern computing technology like phones, laptops and social media have contributed to a cultural change that has resulted in a breakdown of our values, institutions like family and community, and our manners and traditions?

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Modern computing technology contributing to a cultural change

1. What are some examples of the ways that modern computing technology like phones, laptops and social media have contributed to a cultural change that has resulted in a breakdown of our values, institutions like family and community, and our manners and traditions?

2. Do you think that these trends of breakdown can be reversed? If so, how?

3. Analyze whether it is wrong for us to allow this breakdown according to consequentialism (utilitarianism)?

4. Analyze whether it is wrong for us to allow this breakdown according to deontology.

5. Analyze whether it is wrong for us to allow this breakdown according to virtue ethics.

Write a position paper that supports the practice of community mining, including children and one which denounces it-both in the same document.

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Practice of community mining,

A position paper that supports the practice of community mining, including children and one which denounces it-both in the same document. Two paragraphs on ethical concepts which support the continued practice as is and two that denounce it based on the application of ethical principles. Minimum of 4 paragraphs using ethical principles

Briefly explain the history of the social movement. What ethical problem are activists hoping to solve? What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?

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Ethics in Society

Instructions: This assignment requires that you construct a PowerPoint (or similar) presentation that explores the
ethics behind a social justice cause or movement. People join social justice movements to achieve equity, inclusion, and
justice for entities such as humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment.

Select a social justice movement and discuss how at least two ethical concepts listed below have been or could be used
to create social change.

Your presentation must address the following:

• Briefly explain the history of the social movement.
• What ethical problem are activists hoping to solve?
• What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?

Briefly explain the history of the social movement. What ethical problem are activists hoping to solve? What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?

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Ethics in Society power point Project

Instructions: This assignment requires that you construct a PowerPoint presentation that explores the ethics behind a social justice cause or movement. People join social justice movements to achieve equity, inclusion, and justice for entities such as humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment.

Select a social justice movement and discuss how at least two ethical concepts listed below have been or could be used to create social change.

Your presentation must address the following:

Briefly explain the history of the social movement.
What ethical problem are activists hoping to solve?
What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?
Include at least two of the following ethical concepts:

Empathy
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Autonomy
Fairness
Justice
Motive
Consequences
Free Will
Determinism
Punishment
Natural Rights
Contractarian Rights
Equity
Duty
Welfarism
Retributivism
Speciesism

Have at least 7 slides (including title and reference). Use the book as a reference and list it at the end of the presentation. You may include graphics or other visual aids to enhance your presentation