Egoism and Altruism

Egoism and Altruism

Egoism is in terms of philosophy, to theories in which self-interest is regarded as the principal motivating factor. Egoism is also, Consequentialist ethical theory that opposes that we act morally when we act in a way that supports our own best long-term interest. The difference between psychological egoism and ethical egoism reflects the contrast of verses ought, fact, verses value, or descriptive verses prescriptive. Psychological egoism the empirical principle that the defining motivation of every voluntary action is a longing for one's own welfare and even though all actions are regarded as self-interested actions, the egoist gladly points out that people usually try to obscure the determining motives for their actions because such disguise is usually in their self-interest and also, is a expressive theory resulting from observations from human behavior and psychological egoism makes no right as to how we should act and that all persons seek their self-interest on this theory is a claimed fact, and this belief is viewed by the psychological egoist as nonmoral and supportable.

Ethical egoism is the normative or unbending policy that each single person should looks as an end only that individual's own welfare. The idea is that an individual's own welfare is the only thing that is ultimately valuable for that individual. Ethical egoism does not claim that all persons, in fact, seek their own self-interest; ethical egoism only claims that we ought to seek our self-interest, even though all persons might not do and also, ethical egoism is to be regarded as a theory, it must be universalized to hold for all persons.

Altruism is the belief that acting for the benefit of others is right and good and also, an attitude or way of behaving marked by unselfish concern for the welfare of others. I believe that there are people out there that will do things to gain something back for themselves like, will turn in a person to the police to get the reward but, not to keep the public safe and there also, people who will do things everyday without thinking and just help and moves on. I believe that there are two different people out there that can help without asking things back and one who will help just to benefits themselves.

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Abortion arguments and against

Abortion is surrounding the moral and legal status of abortion and there are two main groups involved in the abortion which are the pro-choice movement, and the pro-life movement. Abortion is such a big controversy to a lot of people. The questions are when can a person abort a pregnancy, why and what are the limitation of abortion.

I believe that abortion should have a law in any state and country because, some people uses abortion as birth control that they don't believe in birth control pills but, they rather get pregnant and its easy for them just to abort the fetus. Abortion can be right and it could be wrong to be aborting a fetus if someone has no choice in life like for example, if a woman was diagnoses with terminal cancer it is hard to cure her disease if she also, need to concern about her unborn child and also, it is not right to risk the outcome situation of the unborn child when it is born because, if a woman decided to go through the pregnancy while doing chemotherapy and radiation the unborn child could be also, be harmed by all the chemical that is going through the mother's body even though they would say she is getting mild chemo and radiation. It is not right for the unborn fetus to go through pain and suffering in the womb and also, have to deal with it when the baby is also, born. I know a lot of families wants to have a child in some point of their lives but, if the fetus are going to be subject to being disable for the rest of their lives because, a mother did not choose to abort when getting chemo and radiation is very selfish and unfair for the baby in the long ran. Another example, if a female was raped by a man and she gets pregnant after being rape I also, believe it is a legitimate abortion because, a person who forces another person to have sexual intercourse with him there is something wrong with him and he should be in the mental hospital. I would not want to have a child from a person who I don't know and also, conceiving it without my wanting.

In the other hand women should also, have the choice to abort if they feel they would not be able to take care of a child at that moment. That they are not capable to caring and providing for a child. It is a women decision but, I feel that if oneself doesn't think they are financially stable to have a child or just not ready to have a child a women should also, think of taking something something to prevent any pregnancy because, it is not right for the unborn fetus and also, having abortions can be hard on someone body and they can also, die from it. Also, if a person does get pregnant and they just can't see themselves of having responsibility at that moment of time in their lives there are also, possibility of adoptions there are some families out there that can not have their own and they are people who are willing to adopt.

Abortion has a lot of ethical issues that comes with it when to abort a fetus, and what are the good reasons to do so. Evidentially, it does become the person's decisions at the end and not anyone else and we what is right for us.

Euthanasia and Suicide

There are two kinds of euthanasia one is passive euthanasia which means the person dies from their disease and active euthanasia the death is not the person's disease but, something that is given to the person to cause their death.

Euthanasia is the deliberate and planned killing of a human being by a direct action, such as a lethal injection, or by the failure to perform the basic medical care such as the providing of nutrition and hydration, necessary to maintain life.

Euthanasia is no the terminating of medical treatment which is unwanted, or is imposing excessive burdens on the patient, or is incapable of providing any benefit, or the use of drugs in doses sufficient to relieve very severe pain. The use of pain relieving drugs is limited

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