Few colleges today are without experimental courses or curriculum. In their most sophisticated form, such as courses or curriculum are run side by side with traditional ones so that their effectiveness can be compared. At the outset of such as experiment it it impossible to be certain that the experiment will be even minimally effective. Are such experiments ethically permissible? If so, under what conditions?
Traditionally, journalist were thought to keep their personal opinions out of their reporting of their reporting. The place for opinion it was stressed was on the editorial page or in n opinion column Today, that views has changed. Many journalist including Internet bloggers have not learned the traditional rule; others simply ignore it. Is the mixing of opinion and fact in news report ethical? What about reporters using their opinions to decide whom to interview- in other words interviewing only people who share their views?
Alan Dershowitz professional layer has written written this words about his defense of people accused of violent crimes. " I do not apologize for (or feel guily about) helping to let a murdered go free although I realize that someday one of my clients may go out and kill again. I am proud to be regarded as overzealous on behalf on my client. Is this view ethically sound? It is moral for layer to offer vigorous defense for those who admit ( at least in private) that they are guily of these crimes with whcih they are changed?
Respond to all of the three problems individually
1. Experimental Courses. (150 word minimum not including the questions)
- What are the consequences of the actions taken?
- Did the actions taken represent a greater good?
- Who would benefit from the good?
- Did the consequences ethically justify the decisions and actions?
- How would John Locke have solved the problem? Is his answer the same or different from yours? Why or why not?
2. Journalists and Their Views (150 word minimum not including the questions)
- What are the consequences of the actions taken?
- Did the actions taken represent a greater good?
- Who would benefit from the good?
- Did the consequences ethically justify the decisions and actions?
- How would John Lock have solved the problem? Is his answer the same or different from yours? Why or why not?
3.Defending the guilty (150 word minimum not including the questions)
- What are the consequences of the actions taken?
- Did the actions taken represent a greater good?
- Who would benefit from the good?
- Did the consequences ethically justify the decisions and actions?
- How would John Locke have solved the problem? Is his answer the same or different from yours? Why or why not?