The Lifeboat Case
The Queen v.s. Dudley and Stephens (1884) is about English sailors ate the Parker boy.
- Is it morally acceptable or not?
- How about with consent?
- Cannibalism is morally wrong anyway?
- why is murder categorically wrong?
- Is it because Parker has fundamental rights?
Questions raised:
- Do we have certain fundamental rights?
- Can a fair procedure justify any results?
- What is the moral work of consent?
Reading from Chapter 2: Utilitarianism
two rival approached to justice
- morality of an action depends solely on the consequences it brings about
- reasons is independent of the social consequences
