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1. Think about this case, and then describe how a Utilitarian, Kantian, virtue ethicist, and rights theorist would respond to this case. (That is, what would each of them tell Jim to DO and WHY?) 2. Then, tell me which one of them you think is the most reasonable, and why.

1. Think about this case, and then describe how a Utilitarian, Kantian, virtue ethicist, and rights theorist would respond to this case. (That is, what would each of them tell Jim to DO and WHY?) 2. Then, tell me which one of them you think is the most reasonable, and why.

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1. Think about this case, and then describe how a Utilitarian, Kantian, virtue ethicist, and rights theorist would respond to this case. (That is, what would each of them tell Jim to DO and WHY?) 2. Then, tell me which one of them you think is the most reasonable, and why.
Transcribed Image Text:1. Think about this case, and then describe how a Utilitarian, Kantian, virtue ethicist, and rights theorist would respond to this case. (That is, what would each of them tell Jim to DO and WHY?) 2. Then, tell me which one of them you think is the most reasonable, and why.
Jim and the Indians (From Bernard Williams "Consequentialism and Integrity") Jim finds himself in the central square of a small South American town. Tied up against the wall are a row of twenty Indians, most terrified, a few defiant, in front of them several armed men in uniform. A heavy man in a sweat-stained khaki shirt turns out to be the captain in charge and, after a good deal of questioning of Jim which establishes that he got there by accident while on a botanical expedition, explains that the Indians are a random group of the inhabitants who, after recent acts of protest against the government, are just about the be killed to remind other possible protestors of the advantages of not protesting. However, since Jim is an honoured visitor from another land, the captain is happy to offer him a guest's privilege of killing one of the Indians himself. If Jim accepts, then as a special mark of the occasion, the other Indians will be let off. Of course, of Jim refuses, then there is no special occasion, and Pedro here will do what he was about to do when Jim arrived, and kill them all. Jim, with some desperate recollection of schoolboy fiction, wonders whether, if he got hold of a gun, he could hold the captain, Pedro, and the rest of the soldiers to threat, but it is quite clear from the set-up that nothing of the kind s going to work: any attempt at that sort of thing will mean that all the Indians will be killed, and himself. The men against the wall, and the other villagers, understand the situation, and are obviously begging him to accept.
Transcribed Image Text:Jim and the Indians (From Bernard Williams "Consequentialism and Integrity") Jim finds himself in the central square of a small South American town. Tied up against the wall are a row of twenty Indians, most terrified, a few defiant, in front of them several armed men in uniform. A heavy man in a sweat-stained khaki shirt turns out to be the captain in charge and, after a good deal of questioning of Jim which establishes that he got there by accident while on a botanical expedition, explains that the Indians are a random group of the inhabitants who, after recent acts of protest against the government, are just about the be killed to remind other possible protestors of the advantages of not protesting. However, since Jim is an honoured visitor from another land, the captain is happy to offer him a guest's privilege of killing one of the Indians himself. If Jim accepts, then as a special mark of the occasion, the other Indians will be let off. Of course, of Jim refuses, then there is no special occasion, and Pedro here will do what he was about to do when Jim arrived, and kill them all. Jim, with some desperate recollection of schoolboy fiction, wonders whether, if he got hold of a gun, he could hold the captain, Pedro, and the rest of the soldiers to threat, but it is quite clear from the set-up that nothing of the kind s going to work: any attempt at that sort of thing will mean that all the Indians will be killed, and himself. The men against the wall, and the other villagers, understand the situation, and are obviously begging him to accept.
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