Question

Consider social issues of ethical import such as poverty, drug use, and/or lack of health care, what ethical problems that arise related to those particular issues? How would care-based and rights theory of ethics solve those problems.

Are those solutions correct? Why or why not?

What is your own approach there?

Answer 1

ETHICAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO POVERTY, DRUG USE AND LACK OF HEALTH CARE ARE :

Drug addicts are often incapable of maintaining a regular job or source of income, leading to various forms of deviant behavior, such as robbery and swindle, so they can obtain their daily dose.

Continued consumption of drugs or alcohol and the associated disregard for other essential needs also entails the progressive deterioration of the addicts health.

structural violence is visible in the way drug addicts are treated by the justice system, health services and by their families and communities, after being socially and institutionally labelled.

drug abuse is particularly disruptive for families and often, communities.

Families with relatives suffering from substance abuse disorders, similar to those with chronic diseases or mental diseases, frequently resort to the healthcare system with complains of physical and psychological stress

Lack of adequate coverage makes it difficult for people to get the health care they need and when they do get care, burdens them with large medical bills, more likely to have poor health status and less likely to receive medical care.

Hunger, lack of sanitation and access to clean water and lack of resources for proper health care are the main reasons for many ethical problems of population.

SOLVING ETHICAL PROBLEMS WITH CARE BASED AND RIGHT THEORY OF ETHICS :

The moral theory known as “ the ethics of care” implies that there is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life.

The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by feminists in the second half of the twentieth century.

The theories of ethics of care are

(1) utilitarianism

(2) deontology

(3) social justice and social contract THEORY

(4) virtue theory.

Within the ethics of care, the one-caring receives the care for without evaluation. However, in deciding how to respond, the one-caring works in a “problem-solving” mode in order to keep in mind the particular relationship and context and to avoid slipping into the abstract, impartial, impersonal reasoning of the deontologist,the utilitarian or the justice theorist. Ultimately, there is a defining imperative to act that is a critical function of what it means to care.

There are three levels of a caring morality: the self is cared for to the exclusion of the other, the other is cared for to the exclusion of the self and moral maturity. wherein the needs of both self and other are understood.

Yes, sometimes those solutions are currect and sometimes not .

The approach should be different. The way of approach should be more ethical and need based. The poverty can be reduced by providing equality in every aspect to everyone. The drug abuse can be reduced by abolishing the drug supply and providing more rehabilitation centers for the addicts. The lack of health care can be reduced by providing free health care to the poor or low cost Healthcare.