Please posts your lists and your explanation of the patterns of these lists--your explanation for what makes the wrong actions wrong or why the wrong actions are wrong--and your comparison of your exp

To begin developing ethical theories, we can begin with this activity, which we will post on the discussion board here:

  1. Make a list of actions that you think are obviously and obviously and uncontroversially wrong, and that almost everyone would agree. Detailed, specific, and vivid are the best examples!

Theft & Robbery-


Child Neglect-


Bullying-


  1. Make a list of actions that you think are obviously and obviously and uncontroversially at least permissible, or just good actions, and that almost everyone would agree. Detailed, specific and vivid are the best examples!

Helping the homeless-


Mentoring-


Bullying-

  1. After you develop your lists, think about what explains the patterns of these lists. For simplicity, we can focus on the “wrong” list (although this is a bit depressing!). The questions are these: why are the wrong actions on the “wrong” list? What is it about them that makes them belong on that list? And what makes the not wrong actions belong on the not wrong list? 

  2. Finally, which moral theory or theories discussed in this week's readings are your explanations most similar to? 

Please posts your lists and your explanation of the patterns of these lists--your explanation for what makes the wrong actions wrong or why the wrong actions are wrong--and your comparison of your explanation to this week's moral theories on the discussion board. At least 300 words total.