Putting a Price Tag on Life.ppt

1、Putting a Price Tag on Life,Outline,The utilitarian philosophy Putting a price tag on life A discussion about cost-benefit analysis with a price tag on life,The utilitarian philosophy,The highest principle of morality, is to maximize the general welfare, or the collective happiness, or the overall b

2、alance of pleasure over pain; in a phrase, maximize utility. principle by reasoning Utilitarian logic,Putting a price tag on life,The original is from the examples of Philip Morris and Ford Pinto case. In the latter example, a price tag is tied on the dead persons accompanied with a few problems. Is

3、 this a counterexample to the utilitarian idea of calculating? Because Ford included a measure of the value of life,A discussion about cost-benefit analysis with a price tag on life,Student One think theyve made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life.

4、 He doesnt believe he could give a number. He thinks that this sort of analysis shouldnt be applied to issues of human life. Student Two thinks it is for - there needs to be a number put somewhere. He does not sure what that number would be, but he do agrees that there could possibly be a number put

5、 on the human life,Student Three thinks that if cost-benefit analysis isnt employed, the greater good is sacrificed, in this case. He doesnt want to arbitrarily calculate a figure Student Four Anna is worrying about the effect on the minority. Student five thinks at a certain point, you have to make a decision and Im sorry for