Monday, October 31, 2011
Miligram's Experiment
The Miligarm experiment was an experiment done that was used to test the question of why people act obedient. The supervisor of the experiment tells the volunteers to shock the people in the adjacent room which will cause them a lot of pain. What the volunteers don't know is that this shock is completely harmless. The supervisor claims that the shocking is under his supervision and he says he takes complete resposibility for what happens. He makes the volunteer shock the person everytime there is a wrong answer, with no pity even if the volunteer doesn't want to do it.
From this experiment we can conclude through the Agency Theory that the volunteer acted unethically out of his own free-will. We can conclude this based on the fact that shocking people is unethical and that he voluntered under his own free will.
So what exactly is the Agency theory? The agency theory basically says that a free act is an act which is caused by and agent, it also says its not the feelings that come from inside our brain that make us act freely but instead they are all caused by an agent, hence the name of the theory. So who is the agent? An agent is just basically someone in some form of power over someone else that does something, and what they do causes other things to happen and the cycle just keeps going on and on.
From this experiment we can conclude through the Agency Theory that the volunteer acted unethically out of his own free-will. We can conclude this based on the fact that shocking people is unethical and that he voluntered under his own free will.
So what exactly is the Agency theory? The agency theory basically says that a free act is an act which is caused by and agent, it also says its not the feelings that come from inside our brain that make us act freely but instead they are all caused by an agent, hence the name of the theory. So who is the agent? An agent is just basically someone in some form of power over someone else that does something, and what they do causes other things to happen and the cycle just keeps going on and on.
Monday, October 17, 2011
The Last Question
I believe that everyone has free-will, but I also believe that our actions are already pre-determined. So therefore I believe in determinism. Even though God gave us the right of freely choosing what we want to choose, He already knows what will happen and how it will happen, and he is always right. So in truth all the choices we make were already determined before we even made those choices. So how can true free-will exist when the choices we make are already determined? Thats right I they really can't exist thats why I believe in determinism and not true free-will, more like partial free-will.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Utilitarian's Perspective on Cost Benefit Analysis
From a Utilitarian's point of view you should only go to school if the benefits of going to school outweigh the costs of going to school. They would say you shouldnt go to school just because you want to go to school or not go to school if you dont want to, but instead they would say you should go to school because the benefits outweigh the costs of going to school, or you shouldn't go to school because the costs outweigh the benefits of going to school. And eventhough students tend to complain a lot about school they probably wouldn't be happy without it like they think they would be. And more importantly school sets the stage for our future.
The one major objection that a Utilitarian poit of view would have toward school would be the school fees. Parents put a lot of time in raising the money that we use for school up, and they might not necessarily be happy with spending that much money for school. In fact it might make them unhappy that they have to send so much of their hard earned money towards an education for their kids. So from a Utilitarian point of view school might not be worth it from a dollar value point of view because it is making parents unhappy to spend so much money. So they might argue that students should in fact drop out of school so that their parents will be more happy because they arent spending so much money eventhough in fact school might still be worth what it costs.
The one major objection that a Utilitarian poit of view would have toward school would be the school fees. Parents put a lot of time in raising the money that we use for school up, and they might not necessarily be happy with spending that much money for school. In fact it might make them unhappy that they have to send so much of their hard earned money towards an education for their kids. So from a Utilitarian point of view school might not be worth it from a dollar value point of view because it is making parents unhappy to spend so much money. So they might argue that students should in fact drop out of school so that their parents will be more happy because they arent spending so much money eventhough in fact school might still be worth what it costs.
Cost Benefit Analysis
Tangible Costs of Going to School
- tuition fee
- lunch fee
- transportation fee
- uniform/accessory fees
- extra trip fees
- you dont get enough sleep
- boredom
- stress from work
- negative relationships formed
- weariness
- better chance of getting into college
- get to be with friends
- get to play sports
- transcript
- get to learn about the world
- get to graduate from highschool
- memories
- knowledge gained
- friendships
- get to go to college after
- you become smarter
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