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Peter Singer has an interesting article at this link about ethics. You will be presenting your movie reviews about ethical themes in the next few weeks. Singer is an Australian that wrote the piece for Britanica that I Used in my ethics class and now is at Princeton. He notes that the taking of life has moved to an impersonal event in the last two centuries, but it was not always that way. The result is a different form of mental reaction. This is an interesting article.
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What a weird/interesting article. I think that it all revolves around the “who” is involved. If it were my mom/dad/brother that were the five people that were to be killed, I would not hesitate to throw myself or any one near me to prevent their deaths (hopefully this line of thinking isn’t insane). If it were Saddamm, Hitler, and some other idiots…I would jump off the bridge, and push the trolly along at a faster rate to make sure that they all died. If I did not know any of the parties involved, I would then make whatever decision that would net the most saved lives.
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I sent this article to my friend Roselyn Morris PhD CPA Dept Chair Texas State University. Her response was that she shied away from ‘ethical heroics’ as they were not the kind of decicion we are likely to make as financial professionals. My response to that was true, but we are getting ever closer in this era of bioethics. Who will get real or artificial organs? I look forward to our discussion of the films and their ethical issues.
One of the wonders of WW II was that no one shot Hitler, he lived throughout the war in a Berlin apartment guarded by only one soldier, gee.
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