Faced with a Moral Delimma

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The Evil Hobo has forced Bill the engineer into a moral dilemma which has victimized Sarah. Joe the janitor is equally victimized with the current laws that are in affect that allow doctors to legally kill innocent people to harvest their organs for people in medical need. In these scenarios Sarah and Joe are being placed in harm’s way. Bill and the doctor are both posed with a dilemma to sacrifice the victims for the greater good. Again the constrained and threshold views held by deontologist and utilitarian’s allow Bill and the doctor to determine the amount of harm that is moral to allow and moral to cause. Sarah to die he would face the deontologist limit on the amount of harm that is moral to allow or the utilitarian limit on the amount of harm that is moral to cause.

When faced with dire situations it is human nature to protect life. We perform to our capacity in these types of situations, which is to our mental, physical, or emotional ability. I believe we don’t weigh the immediate consequences of the situation. Utilitarianism states that a moral decision and outcome of certain actions must be considered first, because the emphasis is placed on the consequences of your actions. Deontology doesn’t require an individual to consider the consequences, it is based on more on the criterion of moral behavior not what might or might not happen. The utilitarian view would reflect the outcome of the situation and the deontology may measure our immediate action, however I believe to take someone’s life or allow their death by not acting at all is inhumane and morally incomprehensible. The constrained and threshold views are human controls that disallow moral judgment to take the role of judge and executioner. I believe it is Bills responsibility to perform to his ability an attempt to save Sarah’s life and upon that successful action to redirect his attention to the next dire situation which may be his own safety. In the case of the Evil Hobo and Joe the janitor it is still the moral responsibility of Bill and the doctor to protect immediate life, meaning Sarah and Joe, it is not under their control the fate of the many, which are the passengers and the patients affected by the toxic spill.