Moral status of accidents

Moral status of accidents.

No one is naive enough to expect that all moral beliefs are universal. Today, some countries legally beat and imprison homosexuals, and others recognize gay marriage; in some places, killing a bull is a sport, and, in others, it is an abomination; in some places, corporal punishment is the obligation of a responsible parent and, in others, grounds for forced removal. Indeed, the burden of proof...

Psychopathy increases perceived moral permissibility of accidents.

Psychopaths are notorious for their antisocial and immoral behavior, yet experimental studies have typically failed to identify deficits in their capacities for explicit moral judgment. We tested 20 criminal psychopaths and 25 criminal nonpsychopaths on a moral judgment task featuring hypothetical scenarios that systematically varied an actor's intention and the action's outcome. Participants w...

The Status of Moral Status

This paper investigates whether moral status talk gets us anywhere in our search for answers to questions in the ethics of marginal cases. I consider the usefulness of moral status talk first on the assumption that an individual’s possession of moral status is not a further fact about that individual, and then on the assumption that it is. Finally, I offer an expressivistic interpretation of mo...

Ranking Moral Status of Mundane Creatures

The particular outlook of some scholars about human is raised from principles of a particular cosmography that considers human as the unique creature of the universe with “personality” based upon wisdom and reason. This view has also relegated the other creatures to the level of “thing and tool” for human life. Meanwhile, the Islamic philosophy inspired by the Quran, not only considers that all...

The moral status of animals.