Ethics Paper - Due tomorrow before midnight and answer one question. Best person to help is who have done my Ethics papers in the past few weeks. They will have a better understanding. ***Using web based research, find an environmental-based ethical dilemma from the past five years online. (You can use a news story, an internet article, a law case, or anything from a governmental database for this assignment.) Then, using this story as a foundation for your dilemma: -Create a 2-4 paragraph "dilemma" similar to the other dilemmas you have been solving throughout this term. -Solve the dilemma using Kant's ethics (Categorical Imperative). -Solve the dilemma using any other method we have discussed to date (with which you agree.) -State which resolution (Kant's or the other one you chose) you prefer and why. This assignment should be about two typed pages, double-spaced. You MUST provide the source of the dilemma, and thus this paper will require at least one "reference." Use APA format in citing the source, and let me know if you have questions on how to do that. I have included Kants Doc. Also, the previous methods from the past few weeks which was used to write the other papers. **Question need answered: Only need a personal opinion with at least 3-4 sentences. (This is our topic for discussion and just need it to join the conversation) You can add it to the bottom of the Ethics paper or just on a separate document.

Ethics Paper - Due tomorrow before midnight and answer one question. Best person to help is who have done my Ethics papers in the past few weeks. They will have a better understanding.

***Using web based research, find an environmental-based ethical dilemma from the past five years online.
(You can use a news story, an internet article, a law case, or anything from a governmental database for this assignment.)
Then, using this story as a foundation for your dilemma:

-Create a 2-4 paragraph "dilemma" similar to the other dilemmas you have been solving throughout this term.
-Solve the dilemma using Kant's ethics (Categorical Imperative).
-Solve the dilemma using any other method we have discussed to date (with which you agree.)
-State which resolution (Kant's or the other one you chose) you prefer and why.

This assignment should be about two typed pages, double-spaced. You MUST provide the source of the dilemma, and thus this paper will require at least one "reference." Use APA format in citing the source, and let me know if you have questions on how to do that.

I have included Kants Doc. Also, the previous methods from the past few weeks which was used to write the other papers.


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**Question need answered: Only need a personal opinion with at least 3-4 sentences. (This is our topic for discussion and just need it to join the conversation) You can add it to the bottom of the Ethics paper or just on a separate document.

**There are three basic propositions in standard Utilitarianism (Please be sure to listen to Mill's audio lecture before joining this threaded discussion):

Actions are judged right and wrong solely on their consequences;
that is, nothing else matters except the consequence, and right actions are simply those with the best consequences.

To assess consequences, the only thing that matters is the amount of happiness and unhappiness caused;
that is, there is only one criterion and everything else is irrelevant.

In calculating happiness and unhappiness caused, nobodys happiness counts any more than anybody elses;
that is, everybodys welfare is equally important and the majority rules.
In specific cases where justice and utility are in conflict, it may seem expedient to serve the greater happiness through quick action that overrules consideration for justice. There is a side to happiness that can call for rushed decisions and actions that put decision-makers under the pressure of expediency.

Here is a dilemma for our class:

You are the elected district attorney. You receive a phone call from a nursing home administrator who was a good friend of yours in college. She has a waiting list of 3,000 people who will die if they don't get into her nursing home facility within the next 3 weeks, and she currently has 400 patients who have asked (or their families have asked on their behalf) for the famous Dr. Jack Kevorkian's (fictitious) sister, Dr. Jill Kevorkian, for assistance in helping them die. The 3,000 people on the waiting list want to live. She (the nursing home administrator) wants to know if you would agree to "look the other way" if she let in Dr. Jill to assist in the suicide of the 400 patients who have requested it, thus allowing at least 400 of the 3,000 on the waiting list in.

1.How would we use Utilitarianism to "solve" this dilemma?

2.What ethics did your friend, the nursing home administrator, use in deciding to call you?

3.What ethics are you using if you just "look the other way" and let it happen?

**You dont need to answer this with anything long, just a quick answer to join in class discussion. Thanks.