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Surname 1 Author’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Discussion Post Question One It is morally right to save lives in this case, according to the hypothetical philosophical conundrum. The wisest course of action to do the right thing would be to pull the lever and move the train from track two to track one that would kill one person while saving the lives of the other five (Neon Fun 1). The number of lives that would be lost needlessly is one of the factors I am taking into account in this scenario. The severity of the consequences of not pulling the lever to move the train from track two to one is another consideration. As a result, the best course of action would be to kill one person while saving five. Question Two When I pull the lever in the first scenario, I kill one person while saving five others. My initial instinct tells me that saving more than one life is morally right. After performing the action, though, the intuition shifts, making it seem morally wrong to kill someone (Neon Fun 1). This is so because each person values their life. Therefore, it gives me the impression that there is a better solution that may ensure the survival of all six people. On the other hand, in the second scenario, I hesitate to pull the trigger because I feel that killing someone is ethically wrong. I begin to believe that it is ethically wrong for one person to live at the expense of five fatalities when the action comes to an end and five people perish while one survives.

Surname 2 Question Three I believe the virtue ethics framework is the one that speaks to me the most out of the frameworks we have covered in class this week. This is because it emphasizes people's character attributes, which are essential for human flourishing. Even after considering other frameworks, such as the consequentialism and deontology frameworks, I still find the virtue ethics paradigm to be the most appealing. This is because virtue ethics use the idea of character, which is crucial in maintaining personal and interpersonal connections, whereas these frameworks are based on the rules that strive to offer individuals the appropriate action. Question Four Animals were viewed as objects before the 19th century. As a result, their treatment was neither considered legal nor morally right. However, in the 19th century, this paradigm underwent a significant change as their suffering began to be viewed as a morally troubling issue (Dimmock and Fisher 219). Since then, it has been acknowledged that it is unacceptable to torture or cause unnecessary suffering to animals. This has not stopped people from hurting or killing animals, either. In my situation, for instance, I killed a neighbor's dog that was sneaking onto our homestead. Since I believed I was protecting our safety, which was of utmost importance, I did not feel the action was improper as I was performing it. This incidence is one of the thousands that occur worldwide yet go unreported. Question Five Reading Diamond Core's criticisms of Singer's meat-eating philosophy, I find them to be very persuasive. Although Singer strongly defends his claim that eating animals is morally acceptable, excluding extremely improbable circumstances (Dimmock and Fisher 228). He omits

Surname 3 to specify the precise circumstances in which eating a particular animal is morally permissible. Thus, this makes it hard to be convinced by his claims. As someone who enjoys eating meat, I believe that he was unsuccessful in sowing any doubt in my mind about doing so. Furthermore, it is challenging to be convinced by him because he does not explain the situations in which one knows that choosing to eat the animal is a better choice than enjoying oneself. Question Six As the bureaucrat, I would refrain from pressing the button because I think it is morally wrong to take any action that would harm some nations' ability to combat climate change. It is my responsibility as an environmental bureaucrat to combat climate change by developing mitigation procedures (Biesbroek et al. 156). Therefore, I understand that pressing the button is a means of interfering with global climate change, which would cause harmful effects on India and Africa. Disruption of the monsoons could create heavy downpours and floods that would kill more people. In my opinion, geoengineering should not be used as a primary method of climate change mitigation.

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Surname 4 Works Cited Biesbroek, Robbert, et al. “Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation.” Review of Policy Research , vol. 35, no. 6, Nov. 2018, pp. 776–91, https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12316 . Dimmock, Mark, and Andrew Fisher. Ethics for A-Level . July 2017, https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0125 . Kaufman, Daniel. “This Week’s Special: Cora Diamond’s, ‘Eating Meat and Eating People.’” The Electric Agora , 20 Nov. 2015, theelectricagora.com/2015/11/20/this-weeks-special- Cora-diamonds-eating-meat-and-eating-people/ Neon Fun. “Absurd Trolley Problems.” Neal.fun , neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/.

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