Please write a 1,000 word essay answering the following prompt.
Use the following ethical issues, global poverty and environmental ethics of pollution. Argue which ethical theory is the most rational in its application to that issue: Kants ethics? utilitarianism? or natural law ethics? Why?
Be sure to also:
Explain in detail how each theory applies to each ethical issue and why.
Define any and all relevant terminology.
For example:
For the issue of global poverty, you would explain how Kants ethics, utilitarianism, and natural law ethics apply and why.
Then, you would argue which is the most rational to apply to that issue and why.
You would do this for both of the issues.
Please use Lewis Vaughn, Exploring Ethics
On global poverty
o Overview of the ethics of global poverty: pp. 820-829
o From Famine, Affluence, and Morality, by Peter Singer, pp. 829-835
o From Lifeboat Ethics, by Garrett Hardin, pp. 835-841
On pollution
o Overview of environmental ethics and pollution: pp. 429-440
o People or Penguins, by William F. Baxter, pp. 442-446
o From The Land Ethic, by Aldo Leopold, pp. 465-469
These chapters explore the application of utilitarianism, Kants ethics, and natural law ethics to some major ethical issues today: abortion, euthanasia, global poverty, and pollution