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For questions about ethics, a branch of philosophy dealing with morality, justice, virtue, vice, good and evil.
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Why do we condemn pedophilia morally?
The philosophical part of the question is in essence the same as for other matters involving children as well, such as child labour, arranged marriages, forced school education, juvenile criminal law, …
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Which did come first morality or Judicial Law System?
Examples can be found for laws being molded by morality, laws being molded by other things (politics, economics), and morals being molded by such laws that were not molded by morality. Also examples c …
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Attitude towards different animal species
Individuals have no strong reason to have consistent moral values. It does not help the individual much to ponder the question of whether their values are consistent, it is much more valuable for the …
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Under which ethical framework do we allow placebos in drug trials?
Please do not spread fake information about development of drugs and vaccines.
"Few people seem to be bothered by this, ..." - The medical staff involved in drug trials are very concerned about this.
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Why should we strive to be the least immoral?
The reason to act in moral ways is because we want everyone else to also act in moral ways, not to steal from us, hurt us, kill us. It's an agreement with society.
Now if society decided that it will …
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What are the logical problems of solving the trolley problem with chance?
I guess I maximize the chance of saving lives subject to the constraint of also minimizing "unfairness" when distributing that chance.
Not really. You try to balance fairness and survival, but that' …
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Do non-moral agents have rights?
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. …
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Why is it moral to prefer to help one's family to one's neighbours, or those we know better ...
Assuming it was somehow natural or accepted for humans to favor certain humans over others, it would be the is-ought gap fallacy to argue that this is therefore moral behavior.
Such ethical problems a …
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Are there moral theories in which necessity and duress do not excuse or justify an immoral a...
All moral frameworks keep the person accountable for their decision, regardless of whether according to the given framework the person should resist or comply.
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What determines the immorality of something?
The examples in the question indicate that this question is about descriptive ethics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_ethics, the study of what people find immoral. … Somewhat interestingly, societies can even come up with rules to follow that are philosophically immoral in normative ethics frameworks. …
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I work from home as a software engineer and my job is happy with my performance. But I'm put...
The simplest way for you to answer for yourself is to ask yourself what you would expect of others if you hired them to work for you and they acted in that way towards you as an employer.
It would see …
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Is it ethically correct to be proud of one's country?
Emotions like pride or shame are not subject to ethics, you do not break rules by feeling them. …
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How do we judge if an action is moral or not if there are competing frameworks by which we j...
Yes, while religions typically assert that any action can be definitely immoral, in philosophy actions can only be immoral with respect to a chosen framework. Philosophy recognizes multiple different …
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Ethics vs. fairness
A typical real example is handling of triage of injured people (deciding with limited resources whom to treat and whom to leave dying). Fairness principles like egalitarianism or utilitarianism exist …
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Why did Kant think that you should be responsible for the consequences of lying but not for ...
Assuming you know the intention of the person at the door, it is your moral duty to act to prevent this to the best of your ability. However, acting immoral to prevent it (such as lying) would be (som …
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