What makes a situation or context one that involves morality or ethics?
A moral situation or context is one in which it makes sense to ask about its rightness or wrongness (NOT that it’s right). What are conditions of moral situations? 1. Do moral situations only involve other people? What about non-human animals? (E.g., kicking a dog – is there a moral context between the dog and me, or is there one between my neighbor and me? Do we have a moral obligation to the Grand Canyon, as opposed to its effect on others if I filled it in?) 2. The ability to freely choose and deliberate about our actions. Moral contexts seem to be ones in which someone has an intentional effect on another’s well being. So: 3. Moral question = A question that concerns the way in which a society or we as individuals should live. E.g., Is it morally permissible for Hilda to have an abortion? Or, “Is the death penalty morally permissible?” B. Moral Conflict: Can the right action ever clash/conflict with another right action? Suppose you’re obliged to do two different things, but you ca
