David Youn Module 3

  1. Virtue ethics vs. action ethics doesn’t pose a serious issue in our daily lives. However, it may bring heated arguments those who believe in their respective beliefs. Lets suppose person A, CEO of company, and person B, a cashier, believes in virtue ethics and actions ethics, respectively. Recently, person A in a news interview says that we should donate to the poor. But ever since the interview, person A has never donated a single cent to charity or to the poor. In most cases, when a third person observes the actions of A, it can be concluded that person A’s words does not have genuine meaning. While person B, never has told to his friends or family that he believes people should donate to the poor has consistently donated 10% of his income to charity. In this case, although person B never tells anyone of his belief, he is directly impacting the poor while person A is not. From this scenario we can conclude that action ethic has more value than virtue ethic. I believe that it is far more valuable to directly impact someone’s life instead of just saying the words.

4. I believe that the ecosystem is here for the sake of humans. If anyone looks to                    history of any country, there aren’t any cases in which the ecosystem built itself to              its current state of the country. Any buildings, technologies, educations and                        governments were’t built from animals such as dogs, cats or cows nor trees, fungus          or plants.  Some may argue that the ecosystem is there for its own sake however,              by having an ecosystem is a great significance to the human society. The                            ecosystem is present so that humans can use the resources that the ecosystem                provides for us. The ecosystem provides humans foods, clothing and houses. It may          hurt some peoples moral beliefs that killing animals and plants so that humans can              have source of food, But if we were to believe that the ecosystem is there for its own          sake, it would be hard for humans to live as we would have to turn into cannibals. I              think that most people would believe that being a cannibal is much worse than eating          what the ecosystem provides.

6. In a moralistic point of view, my life, in fact any persons lives are the same.                          However, we can make certain circumstances in this question of is my life more                valuable than others. If we exclude any moralistic point of view in this argument,                  many can argue that some peoples lives are more important than other people. In the          instances of CEO of big companies and research professors, they contribute to the            society more than I can in the current state. What they contribute in daily lives most            likely impact someones life directly in a much greater impact than I can ever do,                  whether that is by money or education. We can use this argument for anyone. In the          instance of me, I can value my life more than others. I believe that the researches              that I am doing is impacting to the current society more than a high school student              can. I am not saying that the high school student life is invaluable but circumstances          make it that way. That high school student may or may not contribute to the society            more than I can in the future. But in its current state, I can do much more than certain          people. I think that everyone to certain extent has this belief because of wages that            people get paid with certain jobs. Everyone agrees that doctors get paid more than              cashiers. This is because we value the skills that doctors have in comparison with a          cashier.

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