1) Review each of the websites below. Decide what is, in your view, the central moral issue that is at stake. There is more than one central issue — but use all three websites/links to decide what you will focus on. All four websites deal with the same issues. Please only choose one issue to work with.
Then, take a stand; i.e., decide what should happen or what the right/good/just action to take should be. State clearly the stand you are taking in your exam.
2) Defend your stand using at least two of the approaches to ethics we have covered to date. Toward that end, the following suggestion might be helpful. While you are free to select any two of the approaches we have been working with, choosing a pair of approaches that contrast might be especially meaningful. For example, duty/deontological ethics and utilitarianism are a pair of contrasting approaches. In using both for your paper, you could (for example) suggest what a utilitarian might say and then reject a utilitarian conclusion by using duty ethics (including something in your short paper about why a duty/deontological approach is better… Alternatively, a person could suggest what duty ethics might prescribe but then go onto explain what a utilitarian might conclude, including some thoughts about why utilitarianism is more appropriate…
Make sure your defense supports the stand that you take.
If one approach supports or defends your stand well, and the other does not, then rebut the one that does not, ie., say why it is faulty. (Toward this end, the weaknesses we talked about, relative to each approach we worked with, will help, i.e., use what you know of an approaches weaknesses to rebut or argue against it).
There is no length requirement for the mid-term essay.
THE WEBSITES I AM ASKING YOU TO LOOK AT INCLUDE:
1) FIRST WEBSITE: Please click here.
2) SECOND WEBSITE: Click Here
3) THIRD WEBSITE: Click here.
4) PLUS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ALSO LOOK AT THE ATTACHED FILE: UN Petition-ANWR.pdf