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Mira Marhaba

SparkNotes: Utilitarianism: Chapter 5: Of the Connection between Justice and Utility (P... - 1 views

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  • Mill begins by trying to pin down the meaning of justice, by coming up with a list of those things that are commonly classified as just or unjust. First, it is considered unjust to deprive someone of his legal rights. However, this concept has exceptions. For example, a person may have legal rights he should not have--his rights may be the provision of a bad law. While people vary on whether bad laws can be justly disobeyed, all people agree that laws can be unjust. Therefore, law cannot be the ultimate standard of justice. A second form of injustice comes from depriving someone of something he has a moral right to possess. Third, it is considered just that a person receive what he "deserves," and unjust that he obtain something he doesn't deserve; people are thought to deserve good things if they have done right, and evil things if they have done wrong. A fourth form of injustice is to violate an agreement with someone or disappoint expectations that one knowingly nurtured. Fifth, it is considered unjust to show favoritism and preference in inappropriate circumstances. However, it is not generally necessary to be impartial; for example, one doesn't have to be impartial in the selection of friends. The claim is rather that a person should only be influenced by those considerations that should apply in a given circumstance. Finally, the idea of equality is seen by many to be a component of justice; some people may make an exception for the sake of expediency, however.
  • Mira Marhaba on 21 Oct 11
     
    This quote is a bit on the big side (understatement), but i highlighted it all to show the connection between utilitarianism and justice. It shows all the exceptions to some laws that may be made, and WHY they should be made. So basically it shows that just because there is a law, it doesn't mean that it is necessarily right.
  • Daryl Bambic on 23 Oct 11
     
    Legal does not equal moral. "Therefore, law cannot be the ultimate standard of justice. "
Mira Marhaba

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'The Interrogators' and 'Torture': Ha... - 1 views

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torture utilitarianism example

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      Mira Marhaba on 11 Oct 11
       
      This is an example of utilitarianism and why it SHOULD be used: to save a whole mass of people versus one terrorist.
  • In the ultimate hypothetical case, if a terrorist with hard intelligence about an impending large-scale terrorist strike could be broken by torture, shouldn't it be used?
Mira Marhaba

Utilitarianism - 0 views

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  • Act in such a way that your actions produce the greatest amount of pleasure and the least amount of pain
  • Mira Marhaba on 21 Oct 11
     
    A quote that, in my opinion, really summons up what utilitarian means. If you read in between the lines, you can see that the quote is basically telling you that it doesn't matter how much pain you get, and whether or not you get pain in the first place. The only thing that should matter is whether or not that final pain is greater or less than the final pleasure. In other words, relating it to our discussion: it doesn't matter what you do and how you do it, so long as you end up doing it in a way that benefits you a lot more than it disadvantages you.
Matthew Rodin

The Animal Liberation Movement - 1 views

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liberation movement animal

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  • Matthew Rodin on 22 Nov 11
     
    Texte écrit par Peter Singer (en Anglais)
  • Daryl Bambic on 28 Nov 11
     
    Pourquoi ce site est important? De quoi s'agit-il?
Mira Marhaba

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill : chapter three - 0 views

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  • Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting and beautifying, the first in importance surely is man himself. Supposing it were possible to get houses built, corn grown, battles fought, causes tried, and even churches erected and prayers said, by machinery--by automatons in human form--it would be a considerable loss to exchange for these automatons even the men and women who at present inhabit the more civilized parts of the world, and who assuredly are but starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
  • Mira Marhaba on 21 Oct 11
     
    This quote gives an example that goes along the lines of this (my interpretation): if we were able to replace anything that humans are doing, with machinery, and in doing so, increase our efficiency, shouldn't we? Well let me ask you this, isn't that what we're already doing? We let the computers and phones and websites and machines take over our whole lives. It may not be very clear how this relates to our topic, but in my opinion, the author worded it in a way to challenge the reader. He asks the question in a way to make the reader respond "Of course not. Why would we replace ourselves with something like a robot?" before they realize that we have, in fact, partially replaced ourselves with these "robots". I think this is important  because it shows how sometimes, just by hearing the theory of an argument, some people will say that it is wrong wrong wrong, but when actually faced with that problem, they would realize that there may be some exceptions to some moral rules. (argument should be used if they show statistics about more people agreeing that torture should not be used)
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