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Moral Reasoning •First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. •A moral principle, for our purposes here, is a rule which categorizes some, but not all, actions as morally right, wrong and/or neutral. • http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/MoralReasoning.html

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Page 1: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

Moral Reasoning

• First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. • A moral principle, for our purposes here, is a rule which categorizes

some, but not all, actions as morally right, wrong and/or neutral.

• http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/MoralReasoning.html

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/MoralReasoning.html
Page 2: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

Deductive Strategy:

• P1 {moral principle} P2 {claim that the action or type of action at issue is correctly described by the moral principle in P1} C {judgment about the morality of the action or type of action at issue}

Page 3: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

Example of Deductive Strategy

• P1 Any act of racial genocide is morally wrong. P2 The Nazi extermination of racial minorities during WW II was an act of racial genocide. C The Nazi extermination of racial minorities during WW II was morally wrong

Page 4: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

Analogy Strategy

• Compare two things or types of things, observing that they are similar in relevant ways, and then conclude that the second thing or type of thing will be similar to the first

Page 5: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

Examples of Analogy Strategy

• P1 Killing in self-defense is morally permitted. P2 Capital punishment is much like a society killing someone in self-defense. C Probably, capital punishment is morally permitted.• P1 Ordinary, living adult humans have moral rights.

P2 Klingons, if they were alive, would be very similar to humans in that they would have similar intellectual and emotional capacities. C Probably, Klingons, too, could have moral rights.

Page 6: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

Types of Reasoning Fallacies

• Generalization• Ad hominem fallacy• Fallacy of False Cause• Straw Man Fallacy• Appeal To Emotion• Slippery Slope• Fallacy of Equivocation• Appeal to popularity• Appeal to tradition

Page 7: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

• "The pro-abortion-rights people, of course, say a baby is not a human until it is born. What do they think it is? A vegetable or a fruit? It just shows where our society is headed when we no longer have value for human life." • "I believe that same-sex couples should be entitled to the legal rights that married

couples enjoy.... But, my friend, that is as far as I want to go. I define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Before you gay-rights folks land on me with both feet, I would like to remind you that I have been supportive of your movement for many years, have withstood a great deal of criticism in the process and have risked the wrath of some editors and publishers. I cannot support same-sex marriage, however, because it flies in the face of cultural and traditional family life as we have known it for centuries. And that's where I must draw the line. Sorry." - Ann Landers, The Columbus Dispatch, July 21, 1996.

Page 8: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

• "A person apparently hopelessly ill may be allowed to take his own life. Then he may be permitted to deputize others to do it for him should he no longer be able to act. The judgment of others then becomes the ruling factor. Already at this point euthanasia is not personal and voluntary, for others are acting on behalf of the patient as they see fit. This may well incline them to act on behalf of other patients who have not authorized them to exercise their judgment. It is only a short step, then, from voluntary euthanasia (self-inflicted or authorized), to directed euthanasia administered to a patient who has given no authorization, to involuntary euthanasia conducted as a part of a social policy."

Page 9: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

• "Then we had a death. A 32-year-old woman hemorrhaged to death as a result of a cervical laceration. I finally realized, we weren't helping women - we were destroying them.“• What I object to most about those people who oppose capital

punishment is that they believe that the lives of convicted murderers are more important than the lives of the police and prison guards who protect us. But, obviously, since the lives of those who protect us are of the greatest value, no one should oppose capital punishment.• "That's what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money.

Abortionists are government licensed hit men."

Page 10: Moral Reasoning First, you formulate a moral principle. Second, you apply that principle to the issue at hand. A moral principle, for our purposes here,

• "An FBI study of thirty-five serial killers revealed that twenty-nine were attracted to pornography and incorporated it into their sexual activity, which included rape and serial murder.“• It is justified to kill someone who is coming onto my property and may

kill me therefore I am justified in shooting trespassers.


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