Final Blog Post Assignment

(1) Question:

Do human beings have a natural tendency to good, a natural tendency to evil, or some combination of tendencies? What are the implications of the answer for ethics?

(2) Conceptual Clarifications:

• Tendencies: a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of bodies falling towards earth.


• Implications: something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood; the act of implying; the state of being implied: to know only by implications.

(3) Answer:

Naturally it is safe to say that humans often have a tendency to do good but there are those certain people and certain times in life where we have the tendency to do evil. Which leads to us to having a combination of both good and evil. But what makes something good? Or evil? That depends on the person, the situation, the other people involved, if there are any, and any other factors that may pay a role in the decision. We are influenced by our surroundings, society and daily actions that make us choose whether or not we want to do good or bad? I think for most people they mostly choose good over evil but like I said were all human and we do all make mistakes. Those who choose evil over good most likely have a nagative mindset or it's because of the way they were brought up that eveil is distilled in them. Also, the implications of ethics involce the questions like are the implications I'm assuming or taking, well are they ethical? Is it ethical to think this way? Are the actions ethical that I'll be making from these implications? Like it says above implications is something implied or suggested. We don't know if our suggestions are right or wrong, or good or bad because it is only a suggestion of our own opinion.

(4) Example:

Like I posted under images, it's an example of the good of recycling along with the bad of littering. In some people cases we may try to recycle to help the environment ,but sometimes we make mistakes and we might litter. This can be similar to other situations where at one point we may be doing good and in others we can find ourselves doing bad. This leads to most people having a combination of both good and bad. Another example would be sometimes people try to help others but while they think they are helping them they could be hurting them by telling them something they think is a good idea, and it might be but the actions they take on with the advice give could turn into something bad. It comes down to the person, the situation and the actions and people involved and every situation is different because the factors are always different.

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(7) References:

Ruggiero. (2008). Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues. McGraw Hill.

The Origin of Ethical Behavior �." On Philosophy. 20 Apr. 2009 .

(8) Extra Credit:

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