Question

The purpose of this assignment is to review and reflect on your own personal values and beliefs that may shape how you interpret and analysis ethical issues. The paper should address any influences in your life that you believe have shaped your position on
ethics in relation to the theories of Utilitarianism, Deontology, and Virtue-based ethics. The paper requires that you discuss each of the three ethical theories and provide your support or rejection of the theory based on your own value system. Also required is reflection upon your own: heritage, ethnicity, culture, family, religion, community, education, and socioeconomic background which may
have shaped your beliefs.Should be 3-5 pages in length.

Please help with at least 3 pages

Answer 1

IMPACT ON MY LIFE BASED ON UTILITARIANISM, DEONTOLOGY AND VIRTUE-BASED ETHICS:

FIRST OF ALL , ALL THE THREE THEORIES REFERS TO MAKING A DECISION IN LIFE EITHER IN A POSITIVE WAY OR NEGATIVE WAY. THE IMPORTANT DECISION THAT YOU TAKE IN YOUR LIFE MAY BE PROFITABLE FOR JUST YOU OR FOR EVERYONE AROUND YOU.THERE ARE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES WITH WHICH THESE THEORIES SHOULD BE HANDLED.MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES SHOULD BE OF UTMOST CONSIDERATION IN DECIDING THE LIFESTYLE .

UTILITARIANISM REFERS TO THE DECISION IN LIFE THAT WOULD BENEFIT MANY PEOPLE AROUND YOU SACRIFICING YOU OWN HAPPINESS. DEONTOLOGY AND VIRTUE- BASED ETHICS REFERS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL VALUES RATHER THAN CUSTOMS, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: I AM AN INDIAN WHO COME FROM AN ORTHODOX FAMILY. MAINTAINING THE CULTURE AND RELIGION IS OF PRIME IMPORTANCE  IN MY SOCIETY. DURING MY UNDERGRADUATION I WAS IN LOVE WITH A GUY WHO BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT COMMUNITY. I WAS INSISTED BY MY PARENTS THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE IN MY SOCEITY AND I HAD TO LEAVE THAT IDEA OF MARRYING HIM AND SHOULD GET READY FOR THE MARRIAGE WITH THE BRIDE GROOM WHO WAS SELECTED BY MY PARENTS.

INTER-CASTE MARRIAGE: IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE THREE THEORIES I WOULD CONSIDER THIS ISSUE IN MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

UTILITARIANISM:  IN THIS ASPECT OF THEORY, I SHOULD CONSIDER MARRYING THE BRIDEGROOM WHO WAS DECIDED BY MY PARENTS AS IT WOULD MAKE ALL THE PEOPLE IN MY SOCEITY HAPPIER AND ACCEPTABLE BY SACRIFICING MY DECISION ( HAPPINESS).IT ALSO HAS A NEGATIVE EFFECT BECAUSE I AM HURTING AND DISAPPOINTING THE FEELINGS OF THE PERSON WHO LOVED ME AND TRUSTED ME .IF I MARRY THE PERSON I LOVED I WILL HAVE TO GET AWAY FROM MY FAMILY, LOSING THEIR LOVE AND AFFECTION , THROWING AWAY THE TRUST AND RESPECT SHOWED ME. ACCORDING TO THIS THEORY, IT IS CONSEQUENTIAL AND REQUIRES A CAREFUL DECISION IN YOUR LIFE.

DEONTOLOGY AND VIRTUE-BASED ETHICS: REFERS TO THE MORAL VALUES OF LIFE RATHER THAN THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OR CULTURAL ETHICS.I DECIDED THAT INTERCASTE MARRIAGE IS NOT WRONG . I FELT THAT IT WAS BEYOND BORDERS AND I WOULD SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE SOCEITY THAT IT WILL TEACH TO LEARN IN UNITY IN DIVERSITY OF DIFFERENT CULTURES, CASTES AND RELIGIONS.ALL HUMAN SHOULD BE EQUALLY TREATED AND MUST NOT BE SECLUDED JUST BASED ON CULTURAL DIFFERENCES.SO ACCORDING TO THE VIRTUE- BASED THEORY, I CHOSE A DECISION ON HUMANITARIAN AND HONESTY BASIS.

MY DECISION MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED BY EVERYONE BUT ACCORDING TO ME I FEEL SATISFIED THAT MY DECISION WAS NOT WRONG AS I HAVE CROSSED ALL THE OBSTACLES AND LEAD A PEACEFUL LIFE . THE BEST PART IS I HAVE ACHEIVED CONVINCING MY PARENTS ON MY DECISION.THIS IS MY PERSPECTIVE AND I BELIEVE THAT THESE THREE THEORIES MAY BE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE IN ONE'S LIFE.