Ethics homewor 5 ex

Find an ethical issue which occurred within the last year or find an ethical issue faced by a fictional character.

TITLE - type the name of the person or article title and the philosophy you are applying.

Example – President Obama - Act Utility

If you use an article be sure your article was published within the last year.

• SUMMARIZE - In paragraph one give a summary of the article/person/character, in case I am not familiar with them.

• ETHICAL ISSUE - State the ethical issue that person faced – Use proper format - Make it bold print and a SHOULD QUESTION.

• APPLICATION - Using the steps outlined in your text, apply each step to the situation. Fully show your application.  Use a chart as seen in your text.  

      Helpful hint - Don't forget if a stakeholder is more than one person (a group, a family, a business etc.)  estimate how many are in the group and multiply the happiness number you generated by the number of persons in the group (see text).

• CONCLUSION (last step in the application) - Choose the best option. If that person were a true Act Utilitarian  - what would that person have done. What would the Utilitarian theory say is the morally right or best thing to do?

• Be sure to see Sample Format below 

SAMPLE FORMAT

• Summarize the article or briefly discuss the character and the issue surrounding the character.

Helpful Hints

• The main ethical issue is stated in the proper format and a happiness/unhappiness scale is added.
• The number I determine will represent happiness/unhappiness is added.
• I then multiply that number by the number of stakeholders if there is more than one stakeholder.  
• Lastly the options columns are added showing the option(s) with the highest net utility.

Applying Act Utilitarianism – Using a chart as shown in chapter 5.  

Ethical issue - What should X do about _________________?

Scale = Happiness +10---------------------------0--------------------------- -10 Unhappy

Conclusion – The option with the greatest Net Utility, which will bring the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people is __________________________________________________________.