Ethics+Questions

Answer the following questions. Click on the questions to go to the page to answer it. Add your answer to the one that is there; edit the one that exists; add a new paragraph to the one that exists if you have a contrary opinion. The goal is to create an 'uber' answer -- an answer that all of us have contributed to.

1.@Why should you do the right thing? To avoid punishment?  To be rewarded?  What other reasons may exist? 2.@Can you be a good person without believing in God? Explain why or why not. 3.@How should the rightness or wrongness of actions be determined? Is there an absolute standard that all people should adhere to or are ethics relative? Are moral values objective or subjective? (note: these are different questions) 4.How do the following school of thought answer moral questions? Choose two or three that interest you and look them up in Wikipedia: @Buddhism, @Confucianism , @Taoism , @Hedonism , @Stoicism , @Virtue Ethics , @Existentialists , @Divine Command Ethics , @Utilitarians , @(Kantian) Deontologists , @Egoists , @Intuitionists , @Post-Modernists.

Choose two or three of the following questions to answer. Click on the question to take you to the new page.

1.@Is it ever right to lie, cheat or steal? Explain. 2.@When is censorship permissible? 3.@Is war ever 'right'? What would make it right or just? 4.@When is euthanasia permissible? Explain. 5.@When is it permissible to alter your genetic code? 6.@What obligations do humans have towards the environment and future generations? 7.@Do non-human animals have rights? Which animals and what kinds of rights? 8.@Is it ever permissible to illegally download music, movies or computer programmes?