Blog 6 - How did the third contemporary issue effect your principles? What more have you found that you need to reasonably respond to these moral issues beyond a set of principles? Are their other skills or knowledge that will make you a more effective ethical being? What are they?
The third contemporary issue we discussed in class was the death penalty. Unlike both of the articles we dealt with, I am completely opposed to the death penalty. In my eyes it doesnot make sense to prove killing is wrong by killing again. Granted the murderer or convict may have done something so awful that people may think they do not deserve to live anymore I cannot agree. I personally feel that they would suffer enough if not more by spending the rest of their lives in prison. Another reason I am opposed to the death penalty is because sometimes people could be framed or the evidence may not be accurate and the wrong person could be sentenced for the wrong crime.This wrongly accused person could possibly be sentenced to the death penalty and then afterwards new evidence could prove their innocence without the opportunity to have their freedome back.
I believe I have formed this opinion on my princinples alone. I think that the only other way that could make me a more effective ethical being would be to actually be in these situations. You can always say that is what you would do but until you actually have to decde you will never know. I feel that if I were to be put in this situation most principles don't even matter and just an internal gut feeling or human moral would kick in.
I commented on Jess Biondi's blog.
http://jessbiondi.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-6.html?showComment=1336350799933#c9143210453328355906
