Tittle: Everyone Over the Age of 40 vs. A Rare and Beautiful Flower that Contains the Cure to Cancer and Aids
Utilizing the “Death Trolley Outline,” create an essay based on this story about A supernatural Trolley that destroys anything it touches has found its way into your world. The reluctant conductor approaches and says you must choose its target or everything in the universe will be vaporized. The target is Everyone Over the Age of 40 vs. A Rare and Beautiful Flower that Contains the Cure to Cancer and Aids.
Spin:
1. Everyone Over the Age of 40
2. A Rare and Beautiful Flower that Contains the Cure to Cancer and Aids
Create a Five-paragraph essay in APA 7th edition format (introduction, body, conclusion) with a title page and reference page with at least three APA-formatted academic references approximately (1500 words) long.
Death Trolley Outline:
A. Introduction
* a. Introduce:
* 1. The situation of the death trolley
2. The spin results: Everyone Over the Age of 40 vs. A Rare and Beautiful Flower that Contains the Cure to Cancer and Aids
3. The standpoint in which you are going to use to argue in this essay. Choose one from Utilitarian, Kantian, or Virtue Ethics.
* b. Body
* 1. Explain spin result one and elaborate on its implications which is Everyone Over the Age of 40
2. Explain spin result two and elaborate on its implications which is A Rare and Beautiful Flower that Contains the Cure to Cancer and Aids
3. Decide which option is the “prima facia duty,” and make an argument on how your decision reflects “The Good.” (Choose one from Utilitarian, Kantian, or Virtue Ethics. Must connect with the standpoint choosen from the introduction).
* c. Conclusion
* 1. Recap the body and provide how your solution reflects the “good life.”
2. Provide a possible counterclaim.
3. Related counterclaim to the decision
Your answer will be assessed on how well you use the normative ethics of week six-eight and how it applies to “The Good.”
a. While fanciful, take the question seriously.
b. Research the implications of the spin results and weigh the options in relation to the normative ethical principles of Kantianism, Utilitarianism, or Virtue.
For one of the reference: Use textbook
Chapter 8: Utilitarianism (page 104).
Chapter 9: Kant (page 113)
Matthews, G.W. (2020). Philosophical Ethics. A guidebook for beginners. Retrieved from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/927Links to an external site.
For prima facia duty use the concept of:
Ross, W. D., & Stratton-Lake, P. (2002). The right and the good. Oxford University Press.