Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: Chapter 11
- Lesson
- Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)
Initial Post Instructions
In week three, we were looking at rights ethics with regards to Locke. As a reminder, Locke said we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. It is immoral to violate them. Many think we have more rights than those listed by Locke. Some even think we have a right to health care. That means it is the duty of the state to provide each citizen with their medical needs.
Rights theory says to respect the entitlements we have. If a right is inalienable, it cannot truly be violated ethically even with our consent. We have basic needs. Rights are something beyond needs. They are what we should be authorized to have. We are due what we have a right to. That is not always the case with need. For example, we need food, but people often go hungry. A need refers to something we need physically to exist. A right is a moral entitlement to something. Asking if we have a right to food is a moral question. Needs are determined by the requirements of the body and of material existence. Rights are determined by moral reflection, inquiry, an argument We have a right to own property. We do not need it to live. We could imaginably be allowed to use another’s. We have a right to own a home. We can rent.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
Option 1: Assess the moral solutions arrived at through “care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to social issues of ethical import such as poverty, drug use, and/or lack of health care,
That is, note any ethical problems that arise related to those particular issues. Then, say how both care-based and rights theory of ethics would solve those problems.
Are those solutions correct? Why or why not?
What is your own approach there?
Option 2: What moral guidelines should we use when it comes to recently introduced healthcare technologies of any kind (you will note and engage with your own examples) and social technologies of any kind (you will note and engage with your own examples)?
Involve care-based ethics in your answer.
ANSWER:
Option 1
Moral solutions stem from care-based ethics like giving someone money who is in need. Rights-based ethics lead up to society standards and moral issues in regard to the conventional rights of all or human rights. Social issues such as poverty happen regardless of rights-based ethics and regardless of care-based ethics. Care-based ethics would have to be implemented for all people living in poverty throughout each community. Rights-based ethics would have to be implemented for care-based ethics to make a change. Moral solutions can be reached in impoverished areas. Human rights will always be present and poverty will always be present, but continue reading…
Option 2
The moral Guidelines that we should use when it comes to healthcare/ social technologies is to engage in what new opportunities we have today to be able to combine the two together. I understand of importance of “home remedies” passed along from generation to generation. But Healthcare technology has an obligation that the medical field must keep innovating to keep up with the world and find different options on what is preferred from clients. We must emphasize on duty to continue reading…