WHAT'S WRONG WITH KILLING?

What's wrong with killing?

What's wrong with killing?

Abstract

The world is truly in the grab of multiple crises-financial-economic, nourishment, environment-climate and fossil-fuel-that are profoundly inter-connected in terms of their causes and effects. Equally serious for governments, such as the United Nations (UN) agencies in the response of international organizations, international financial institutions, national and transnational corporations, they may exacerbate the impact of these crises and to strengthen the recurrence of their future state. Global nutrition crisis is not the result of inadequate nutrition, not a crisis for everyone. Since 1961, world population has increased by 2 times, the global cereal production tripled. This paper attempts to analyze the record levels in 2008 among the world's hungry poor, despite a record world harvest for the world's leading agribusiness and agri-food company's record profits.

Research and Analysis

What's wrong with killing?

Classical Utilitarianism Argument

The classic utilitarian answer (from which the goal of any society is the pursuit of happiness, understood as the greatest amount of pleasure for most people) is an indirect defense because he does not defend the life of the person himself and itself but by the effect that his death in the other members of society. In this perspective, murder is not only ethically evaluated the effects of fear, legal uncertainty, chaos, frustration of the majority it produces.

Preference Utilitarianism Argument

The preferred response of utilitarianism, also called preference utilitarianism is a direct defense of human life, because it defends the interests of the person himself, as long as everyone has interests and preferences that can not be frustrated.

Argument from Desire Theory

The response from the Theory of Desire, also called Expectation, and that is the greatest exponent of M. Tooley (Oxford contemporary ethical philosopher, see Sources), says is a direct defense of human life because they all have wishes and desires are the ...