Situation Ethics

Question 1

Situation Ethics Paragraph Structure

Answer 1

1
Agape is central to Humanity
Cannot be wrong
Central to Christianity
1 John 4:8 = whoever does not love does not know God’
What is the most loving thing to do (subjective - dispute - two people dilemma)
2
Flexible
Antinomianism
Legalism
William Barclay ‘if law is the distillation of experience’ then to ‘discard law is to discard experience’
if laws weren’t there then world would be chaotic
murder most loving
3
deconstructs itself

Question 2

how many people are undernourished

Answer 2

690 million

Question 3

how does the meat industry contribute to human starvation

Answer 3

cattle consume around 15 more times grain than they can produce as meat
it may be seen as more loving to abandon intensive farming in favour of the production of crops

Question 4

what was fletcher involved in

Answer 4

cloning research and advocated for the use of animals in scientific procedures to end human suffering
(deconstructive argument)

Question 5

what did Jeffrey Dahmer do?

Answer 5

killed dogs and cats before murdering 17 people

Question 6

how is fox hunting agapeic

Answer 6

foxes repeatedly do damage to stocks of chicken and lamb