Ethical Questions Paper There are many important considerations facing Americans today. These questions call into being a debate over whether moral decisions can safely be left up to individuals. This is, at its most basic root, a question of how much involvement the government should have in the lives of citizens. Each of the issues dealt with consider whether ordinary people should be litigated into doing the right thing. One example of this is the …
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…a matter of course, citizens have the obligation to stand up to a government that is conducting itself in a less than moral way; they just must be willing to suffer the consequences of their actions. Much of human behavior can be outlined in a cost-benefit way. People tend to weight the costs and benefits, and chart a course based on that. Many of the problems discussed above can really be seen the same way.