Ethics PHI 1600 First Written Assignment. Read Chapter 2 and watch Week 3 Lectur

Ethics
PHI 1600
First Written Assignment.
Read Chapter 2 and watch Week 3 Lectures. Choose a contemporary moral issue in our society (week 3 folder) and apply the ethical principle of Utilitarianism to approve this moral issue. You must pick a moral issue that you strongly support and apply the utilitarian claims (week 3 folder) to back up your arguments. The paper must be done in MLA/APA format with a minimum of 500 words (quotes are not included in the word count).
*You must apply the Four major points of Utilitarianism (week 3 Lecture) apply Bentham’s Felicific Calculus 9 (week 3 folder) and apply the utilitarian claims (week 3 folder).
*****Felicific calculus*******
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. Bentham, an ethicalhedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced. The felicific calculus could, in principle at least, determine the moral status of any considered act. The algorithm is also known as the utility calculus, the hedonistic calculus and the hedonic calculus.
Intensity: How strong is the pleasure?
Duration: How long will the pleasure last?
Certainty or uncertainty: How likely or unlikely is it that the pleasure will occur?
Propinquity or remoteness: How soon will the pleasure occur?
Fecundity: The probability that the action will be followed by sensations of the same kind.
Purity: The probability that it will not be followed by sensations of the opposite kind.
Extent: How many people will be affected?
List of Contemporary Moral Issues
Euthanasia
Gun Control
Infanticide
Child Labor
Gay Marriage
Capital Punishment
Stem Cells
Genocide
War, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism
Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Transgender using Public Bathrooms
World Hunger and Poverty
Environmental Ethics
Animal Rights
Animal Testing
Sexual Harassment
Abortion (as a result of rape, incest, or mother/baby health at risk)
Drug Legalization
Media/Entertainment
Voluntary Prostitution
Forced Prostitution
Health Care Costs
Education Cost