Influence on moral responsibility, english assignment help

Respond to two other students’
or instructor posts

Responses will be graded for
content, length, and level of introspection. 

discussion 1

Influence
on moral responsibility is also having the ability in choosing free will, or
one’s decisions in a particular situation. A lot of people believe in
determinism, the theory that our destiny is already planned the minute we are
brought into this world. However, I personally feel that we as people have the
option to choose our destiny by the decisions we make in our daily lives. When
talking about free will, I think that everyone has the free will in deciding
right or wrong.  In my opinion what has been instilled into our heads while
growing up of what is right or wrong, can have an impact on what decision you
make of being right or wrong. These would be pur moral facts. In our textbook,
it states that “Ethical subjectivism is our moral opinions are based on our
feelings and nothing more” (Rachels & Rachels. 2015). When it comes to
ethical subjectivism and our textbook, I would have to say I agree, because to
me when discussing anything related to morals or ethics, I would have to say it
all depends on one’s feelings and beliefs. Also stated in our textbook
concerning this theory is “There is NO such thing as right or wrong” (Rachels
& Rachels. 2015). So if there is no such thing as right or wrong then are
moral facts just constructs of our own minds and not really truths? And if there
is no free will are we really responsible for our actions since our actions are
predetermined? These questions have been bugging me for a while. To me if there
is no such thing as right or wrong, then moral facts cease to exist how we know
them. And if we aren’t technically making our own decisions then we aren’t
responsiblefor the outcome though it is our responsibility to bear the
repercussions.

Rachels, J. & Rachels, S.
(2015). The elements of moral philosophy (8th ed.). New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

discussion 2

Having the ability to choose what path you will take can influence
moral responsibility and moral responsibility can influence the path that you
will take as well. The freedom to make whatever decision is based on your
personal moral standards and is not the same for everyone.  According to
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; “…to be morally responsible for
something, say an action, is to be worthy of a particular kind of reaction-
praise, blame, or something akin to these- for having performed it” (Eshleman,
A., 2014, p. 1). The problem with moral responsibility is that we all do not
agree on what was the right thing to do. When you make a decision to take an
action, the thought process is what would you do to morally do the right thing,
then the next person would say that was not the right thing to do. This is often
where moral facts come into play when you can prove this was the right thing to
do. However, many times there are two ways to do the right thing. So is it a
fact or an opinion of what is the right thing morally to do? The hardest things
in life do not come easy and we are tested all the time; “The hard work lies not
in recognizing that at least some moral claims are true but in carefully
thinking through our evidence for which of the many competing moral class is
correct”  (McBrayer, 2015).  If
we decide that there are no moral responsibilities in the world then we are in
fact barbarians. There would be no consequences for our actions and we would
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Eshleman,
Andrew, “Moral Responsibility”,The Stanford Encyclopedia of
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Philosophy(Summer
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<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2014/entries/moral-responsibility/>.

<o:p></o:p>McBrayer, J.
P. Why our children don’t think there are moral facts. (2015, March 2). [The New
York Times].