Briefing Note for WA Attorney General, Michael Mischin: Shield Law and The Fifth Estate Issue: The debate over the effectiveness of shield law in defending journalist's right from disclosing anonymous sources, made prominent by the question of who identifies as a journalist in this digital age, and the growing fifth estate. Background: Shield law was put in place to protect the privilege of journalists in their choice to defend the confidentiality of their sources. This gives them special
The epicureans, and stoics are renowned schools of thought during the Hellenistic era; both schools argue back and forth on many topics, and one among them is the cradle argument. However, both sides possess different conclusions to this argument. The cradle argument in itself is how humans ought to attain happiness in their lives, through the analysis of what brings pleasure and displeasure to infants in their purest form before becoming ‘corrupted’. Analyzing both arguments and their key components
Concept 05: Ethical Principles: This concept is taken from the Ethical Issues in Nursing Practices Block 1, module 03 entitles as “Ethical principles”. Ethical principles are integrated goals that every individual tries to follow all these principles to attain a successful existence in life. These goals include autonomy, confidentiality, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, veracity, fidelity and justice. The principle of beneficence guides the ethical theory to do what is good. The ethical principles
Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer argues that those who are located in countries that are considered wealthy must drastically change, not only the way they live their life, but also their idea of morality so that then they can become devoted to helping those who are in need. Singer begins his argument by asking those reading to reflect upon cases of famine, such as the case in 1971, where people in Bengal were severely suffering and neither individuals nor governments proceeded to do anything
Anderson criticises the luck egalitarian view on several grounds. In order to evaluate her objections to the luck egalitarian position, I will concentrate on her main objection that she makes against luck egalitarianism with respect to victims of bad brute luck as well as victims of bad option luck. Anderson considers objections to luck egalitarianism on the basis that it is incompatible with the requirements of social equality and as such she consider it to be a flawed position. On Anderson’s account
An ethical issue is defined as a topic which is debated upon depending on an individual’s morals, therefore, there actually is no definite solution or there are many different solutions to the issue. Abortion, which is the premeditated ending of life within the womb, and is completed during the first 28 weeks, is seen as an ethical issue as it is a highly-debated matter not only in the past but in today’s world. The Catholic Church has a strong viewpoint on this issue – they are against. They hold
Recall: In the essay “Why Should We Be Moral,” the author lists several important arguments about morality 1) Man should submit to moral constraints to make social living possible. 2) He should be moral because morality makes his life more comfortable and happier. 3) Morality demands us to care for the interests and needs of the greater number even when they are total strangers. 4) An act cannot be automatically considered as immoral solely because the Scripture or religion says that it’s wrong.
Adultery and the pursuit of happiness. The reasons and conditions argued by Bonnie Steinbock for Adultery are supported by Utilitarianism theory. Adultery is right under some circumstances, as Steinbock says; When your marriage have lack of love, or if your spouse is in vegetable status, this are some of the circumstances that you can commit adultery. (Steinbock, Adultery) Utilitarianism say that if the action is an optimific action, the one that have the best ratio of benefits over drawbacks
Macbeth was immoral in his decision and it negatively affected his life and the lives around him, Atticus retained his values and doing so he positively affected everyone around him. Each man took a different course of action when faced with a conflict and it is what separates both men. Atticus was an honourable man he put his own interest aside in order to stand for what is right. Macbeth became immoral through the story and his decision reflected so, He put his own interest above other and used
Happiness is what everyone strives for in society, but everyone has a different aspect on what happiness means to them. Some correspond happiness with success and wealth, and others correspond it with love and family. These two different paths both lead to happiness, but do they make them happy is the question. Anthony Brandt explores this same idea in his essay “The Selfish Pursuit” where the author experiments with the relationship between wealth, success and happiness in our society. The essay