Ethics assessment

ASSESSMENT TASK You are required to perform an ethical and sustainability analysis on  one of the following issues (ie you select one issue from the following 4 options):

1. Student demonstrations in Hong Kong against the Chinese Government policy regarding election of Hong Kong’s next CEO ; or

2. The Australian government’s decision to bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq; or

3. Income disparity between the global rich and poor; or

4. The availability of tax havens which enable high income earners to pay very low levels of income tax in their home country.

For your chosen issue, perform the following tasks –

a. Restate the specific ethical issue that you will analyse in the form of a precise ethical question. Explain why this is an important ethical issue (15 marks)

b. Identify facts which are relevant to your analysis of the ethical issue and show the source of these facts. (30 marks)

c. Analyse the ethical issue using act utilitarianism identifying all relevant consequences. Compare negative versus positive consequences and assess whether net utility will rise or fall due to the ethical act being examined (30 marks)

d. Discuss the relevance of your chosen issue to the economic and social components of sustainability (25 marks).

Provide separate answers to each part (a to d) of this assessment under clearly headed sections.