Trenton's Ethical Blog

Latin America has been able to help their people by adopting universal healthcare. As a result, they have been able to stop more people from going into poverty and their populations are living longer. This poses the question does the government have a duty to provide healthcare to all its citizens. In an ideal world, every government would provide its people with free health care to eliminate a major expense every human experience in their lives. However, many countries claim that universal healthcare is inefficient.  The argument for a country to not provide healthcare to its citizens is the way many countries try to cover that cost. Specifically, taxes are raised for all people so that whenever a citizen of that country needs medical care they do not have to pay. As a result, many individuals do not want to pay for a service when they do not believe they will use it. However, a utilitarian approach may be the most convincing argument to refute that way of thinking. B...

When reading through the collection of articles related to political protests two ethical questions kept being proposed: when is it ethical for a protest to be violent and how should an ethical government act? This is a loaded question because it focuses on two distinct agencies: the government of a country and the people within that country. These two agencies have tension that is seemingly always created by governmental action to stay in control of their people.  While reading the articles it was clear to see that people within the countries of political unrest were provoked by governmental action. For example, in Hong Kong protests began when activists saw mainland China passing a bill that was seen as an erosion of Hong Kongs’ rights and autonomy (Quinn). These native people in Hong Kong want to keep their political freedom to make their own laws and elect their own leaders. However, China has been using political intervention and physical force through Hong Kong police ...

Immigration and the movement of refugees have risen to become a large ethical dilemma for all of Europe. Many migrants are coming to Europe from very dangerous places mostly from Africa or the Middle East. These migrants are wanting to come to  Europe to escape these dangers. However, many Europeans are not wanting them to come into the European Union (E.U.). This poses the ethical question: how should the E.U. handle the influx in immigration, and refugees, to Europe coming from different regions?  Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer of how the E.U. should handle the large wave of immigrants. One side wants to take all the immigrants and deport them out of the E.U. if they did not come in legally. However, as seen in the Netherlands, a Dutch church is choosing not to end their service for weeks to save an immigrant family because police can not legally halt a religious service. The family has been fleeing the police because they believe they would be in danger if ...