INTL 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Female Genital Mutilation, Moral Relativism, Moral Universalism
9 Jul 2018
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A utilitarian attempts to establish whether continuing or ceasing the practice has the best outcome. So for the action to be morally permitted, you would have to be able rationally to will that this action became a universal law. Again, as with utilitarianism, it is possible for different proponents of the same theory to argue differently. But, given the negative health outcomes of fgc it is hard to imagine how you could reasonably universalize such a practice. Disparity in wealth between vendor and person who gave up the body part: utilitarianism, in favor because benefits seller (getting 4399) and benefitting recipient bc getting the body part that they needs. All about the consequences: kantianism, mechanistic/legalistic, if everyone has the opportunity to safely and fairly sell their organs, then it is morally justified, virtue ethics, if it makes you live a fuller life, then it is morally ok.
