Moral Dilemma
MORAL DILEMMA 3
Moral Dilemma
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Moral Dilemma
According to philosophers, the morally upright course will be the course that would be acceptable if everyone would act the same and the outcome is valuable to all people. Therefore, throwing fifteen people out of the boat will be wrong because this will be like murder, but as the captain, murder is inescapable. I do not believe that my way of handling the situation would be best, but either way, a choice would have to be made.
The best way that I would handle the situation would be, telling the survivors the situation we have found ourselves in, and as such asking them who would be willing to sacrifice themselves for others, including myself in the 15 who will jump overboard. I believe that individuals should never treat people as a means to an end where the result is our only concern. (Piper 46). Actions often have consequences, and they can be used from various perspectives and respects. To consider an action morally right or wrong, one must be aware of the ethical rules that govern society. I choose to let the people make the decision, whether to volunteer on the survival of 15, or not to. A morally upright decision is the decision that is acceptable by all people as a right. Therefore, in the case scenario involving the boat, the best ethical and moral decision to take is to come up with a decision that looks at everyone's common good.
The way I sow the situation was, living meant baring the pain of allowing 15 people to die and that only if they all make the decision of who should die and live, but as the captain, I don’t think I had a choice but to die. Sacrificing myself first was so that everyone would stay calm but also as a sign of the seriousness of the situation. But also, Survival for me meant going to jail for the death of 15 people, NOo!.
References Piper, Adrian MS, et al. "The Logic of Kant’s Categorical ‘Imperative’." Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses 5 (2018): 2037-46. Ward, Ken. "Social networks, the 2016 US presidential election, and Kantian ethics: applying the categorical imperative to Cambridge Analytica’s behavioral microtargeting." Journal of media ethics 33.3 (2018): 133-148.