Titanic :: essays research papers

<a href="http//www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and unconnected Affairs Web SitesThe film " big" is riddled with moral dilemmas. In one of the scenes, the possessor of Star Line, the shipping company that owned the now-sinking Unsinkable, joins a lowered life-boat. The tortured expression on his face demonstrates that even he experiences more than unease at his own conduct. Prior to the disaster, he instructs the chief to adopt a policy dangerous to the ship. Indeed, it proves fatal. A complicating positionor was the fact that only women and children were allowed by the officers in charge into the lifeboats. Another was the discrimination against one-third Class passengers. The boats sufficed only to half the number of those on board and the beginning(a) Class, High Society passengers were preferred over the Low-Life immigrants under deck. Why do we all feel that the owner should turn out stayed on and faced his und eniable death? Because we judge him trustworthy for the demise of the ship. Additionally, his wrong instructions motivated by greed and the pursuit of celebrity were a crucial bestow factor. The owner should have been punished (in his future) for things that he has done (in his past). This is intuitively appealing. Would we have rendered the same judgement had the Titanics fate been the outcome of hazard and accident alone? If the owner of the ship could have had no determine over the circumstances of its horrible ending would we have still condemned him for parsimony his life? Less severely, perhaps. So, the fact that a moral entity has ACTED (or omitted, or refrained from acting) in its past is essential in dispensing with future rewards or punishments. The "product obligation" approach also fits here. The owner (and his "long arms" manufacturer, engineers, builders, etc.) of the Titanic were deemed responsible because they implicitly contracted with thei r passengers. They made a representation (which was explicit in their case but is implicit in most others) "This ship was constructed with intimacy and forethought. The best design was employed to avoid danger. The best materials to increase pleasure." That the Titanic sank was an irreversible breach of this contract. In a way, it was an act of abrogation of duties and obligations. The owner/manufacturer of a product must compensate the consumers should his product misemploy them in any manner that they were not explicitly, clearly, visibly and repeatedly warned against.