Discuss what was the right course of action for Dawson and Downey, and why is that course of action right?

You should compose a response to the prompt below using only your assigned readings from Exploring Ethics and the film A Few Good Men as sources – no outside commentary or criticism is allowed.

Within a closed society like the Marine Corps, there are strict rules about duty and honor that make independent thinking difficult. In A Few Good Men, what was the right course of action for Dawson and Downey, and why is that course of action right? Use the philosophy of Deontology to support your argument. Remember that you can use a theory to support or contrast your ideas.

What is the relation between ethics and religion? Formulate and investigate the relation.

John Doe has decided to clone himself. He is sterile. He cannot find anyone to marry him. He wishes to have children. He knows that he will not be able to love a child that is adopted or not connected directly to him biologically. He will be making use of a new procedure that involves taking his skin cells to produce a twin. The twin starts out as an embryo and grows into a child. The child in this case will have the same genetic information as John Doe. John Doe and his child will be twins.
Jane Doe is eighteen. For as long as she can remember she has been sexually attracted to other females. Her parents belong to a religion that has a religious text stating that God forbids one to be a lesbian. This religion goes on further to say that lesbians will be punished in the afterlife. Jane Doe is debating whether she should tell her parents about her sexual attraction. She has not yet decided if she should come out to her parents and live as a lesbian now that she is a legal adult.
Joe and Mary are a couple. Before becoming sterile, they had a child. This child died of a rare disease. Joe and Mary miss their child terribly. They have heard that there is a new IVF procedure that can ensure that they can have another child. However, their religion forbids using IVF.
Use the resources assigned for this week and additional research,

Instructions
Select two of the situations above and then address 2 of the following:

What is the relation between ethics and religion? Formulate and investigate the relation.
For each case, determine the ethical path of conduct. Then, determine what paths of conduct would be unethical
For each case, what would an emotivism say to appraise what you determine is the ethical form of conduct?
For each case, would a natural law ethicist agree with what you say is the ethical form of conduct? Why or why not?
Articulate, explain, and evaluate in each case an approach that makes use of divine command ethics.

Evaluate what a natural law ethicist would say is right to do. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God knows already what we will do. God can cause anything to occur. If we cause things to occur, that seems to be a limitation on the power of God and not make God all-powerful.

There are also religion traditions that say that we have no free will. There are some theologians in Islam who seem to suggest that is true. In order for this line of reasoning to hold true, one would need to believe free will is an illusion and that we have no control over how we live our lives, but rather that we are puppets moving and acting due to God’s will and the powers of destiny and fate. And if this then in the case, how can we possibly be responsible for our actions?

The considerations above show us to what degree our religious beliefs can shape us. For instance, someone who believes in free will may experience way more guilt than someone who believes we don’t have free will and thus aren’t responsible for the choices (and consequences) of the actions we take.

Personal struggles with religion and ethics occur in many places, including in the healthcare arena. Consider the following: You are a nurse in a hospital. A 12 year-old was brought to the hospital by an ambulance. The parents have just arrived at the hospital. This 12 year-old has lost a large amount of blood and requires a transfusion. The parents happen to be members of a religion that believes that blood transfusions are immoral. They want to remove the child from the hospital and prevent the transfusion even if it means the death of the child. You have to decide whether or not you will participate in an action that violates the will of the parents and aid in providing blood for the child. If you choose to participate, and even if you are able to legally justify it, you have to think about the distress you are creating for the parents. If you refuse to aid here, you may be subject to retaliation from the hospital. What is the moral thing for the nurse to do here?

Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, address the following questions:

What would a divine command ethicist say is the moral thing to do here? Why would they say that? Do you agree with the divine command ethics? Why or why not?
Evaluate what a natural law ethicist would say is right to do. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?
Given what you said are the right things to do, what would an emotivist say about your positions and judgments? What role does subjectivity play here in determining what is ethical?

Explain the importance of conducting ethical research.

1. Define the four basic principles of ethical research: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Then explain how these four principles interrelate in the conduct of ethical research.

2. Explain the importance of conducting ethical research.

3. In addition to the most current APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, select one other ethics code from a professional social science association (preferably a different one than used in Written Assignment 3, I used Evaluation of APA Ethical Principles of Psychologist and Code of Conduct and National Association of Social Workers in Assignment 3 so don’t use those) Examine how both ethical codes interweave the four basic principles of ethics into their model for the appropriate conduct of research.

4. Select a research study that is different from the one you selected in Discussion Forum 4( The case is “Is Death a Dying Business?”. Sype (2018) in Discussion Forum 4 so DO NOT USE THAT ONE.) Then conduct an ethical analysis of the research study. Provide all pertinent identifying information along with the steps you made in conducting your analysis.

Is it ethical for people to break pandemic rules and restrictions? Why or why not?

Final Position Paper

Ethics of breaking or ignoring pandemic related restrictions: One can argue that they are willing to personally take the chances to catch the virus by breaking pandemic related rules and restrictions. However, this raises an important ethical question: is it ethical for people to break pandemic rules and restrictions? Why or why not? Questions to answer for this paper: — what do we owe each other? Is this as simple as willing to take solo risk? Does this impact only that one person? Society? Medical system (never know despite low risk could go bad)?

Friends and family at risk? Risk of inadvertent asymptomatic transmissions to community/coworkers?
chose a position on the question you selected analyze the question using Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics, and then argue in favor of your position using one of the above ethical theories (or any other covered in the class).
You should also anticipate opposing arguments to your position and argue against them whenever possible.

Identify and explain potential future possibilities for the campaign with these unused tactics.

Use the lens of Henry Spira’s campaign tactics to analyze the ethics of Rodeos. Have any of Spira’s tactics been deployed in fighting for animal rights in the issue and how so? Have any of his tactics not been used? Identify and explain potential future possibilities for the campaign with these unused tactics.

Have included a YouTube video where you can get a sense of Henry Spira’s campaign tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kip4XVDYlE

Feel free to use additional sources as needed.

At what stage in the development of a human being does it cease to be morally permissible to destroy it?

Abortion and Infanticide

One reason the question of the morality of infanticide is worth examining is that it seems very
difficult to formulate a completely satisfactory liberal position on abortion without coming to grips with
the infanticide issue.

The problem the liberal encounters is essentially that of specifying a cutoff point which is not arbitrary: At what stage in the development of a human being does it cease to be morally permissible to destroy it?

How are we to make the moral move from my right of self-determination to some doctor’s right to kill from my right to his right?Where does the doctor’s moral warrant to kill come from?

Self-Determination

How are we to make the moral move from my right of self-determination to some doctor’s right to kill from my right to his right?Where does the doctor’s moral warrant to kill come from?
Ought doctors to be able to kill anyone they want as long as permission is given by competent persons? Is our right to life just like a piece of property, to be given away or alienated if the price (happiness, relief of suffering) is right?
And then to be destroyed with our permission once alienated?

In answer to all those questions,will say this: Have yet to hear a plausible argument why it should be permissible for us to put this kind of power in the hands of another, whether a doctor or anyone else.

The idea that we can waive our right to life, and then give to another the power to take that life,requires a justification yet to be provided by anyone.

Is deprofessionalization entirely a bad thing?

Is deprofessionalization entirely a bad thing?

If there seems to be something good that comes from deprofessionalization, explain how it arises and why it’s good.

If not, explain why nothing good arises from deprofessionalization.
In your short paper, you must briefly and relevantly discuss key ideas in one of the assigned articles about deprofessionalization (i.e., one of the articles by McPhail, Nagel, or Sullivan).

You must provide a clear answer and cogent reasoning for your answer.

As usual, there is no word count minimum or maximum, but you will need to fulfill requirements listed above. Expect papers will need to be between 500-800 to fulfill requirements adequately.