Assignment:Ethical analysis of news issue
Length: 2,000 words max.
Weighting:30%
You are required to select an ethical issue which has been reported in the news media in 2014. Collect one recent (2014) news article that discusses this ethical issue, and perform further research to collect relevant background information and facts, to enable you to answer each question listed below.
You must provide a full reference of all sources of information you have used to inform your research. Provide separate answers to each of parts ‘a to e’ of this assessment under clearly headed sections:
a. Clearly define the ethical issue and provide a brief explanation as to why it is important. (4 marks)
b. Identify facts which are relevant to your analysis of the ethical issue. (5 marks)
c. Analyse the ethical issue using act utilitarianism, identifying all relevant consequences. Compare negative versus positive consequences and assess whether net utility will rise or fall as a result of the ethical act being examined. (8 marks)
d. Apply Kant’s categorical imperative by defining the rule that authorises the act central to the ethical issue you have chosen. Discuss whether this rule can be applied universally. (8 marks)
e. Provide a conclusion comparing results in parts c & d above identifying whether your ethical conclusion equates with your conscience on this issue. (5 marks)
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IMPORTANT: the following are what my lecturer and I think about this assignment. Please follow them.
1. Use this as the title and the discussing issue: Should tobacco be free access to consume by public?
2. This is an ethical analysis, please follow the format of ethical analysis
3. As you need to find a 2014 news about tobacco to start the discussion, that can be ‘WHO calls for higher tobacco taxes to save more lives’
Other references don’t need to be written in 2014. Prefer journal articles and books. No wiki please.
4. Focus on question a to e
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