Week 4

Question 1

What do members of society hope to achieve during the political process in the formation of the law?

Answer 1

resolve whatever conflicts that exist between them.

In the political process,the public can express opinions on potential laws by voting for some administrators and all legislators, and indirectly through public surveys, letters and the media.

Question 2

What factor would cause the moral standards of individual members of society to be misrepresented in the consensus of large organisations in the transfer from individual moral standards to legal requirements?

Answer 2

the individual members may not have equal influence in determining the general on the moral issue

Question 3

When a business firm is faced with a conflict between its economic performance and its social performance, what is the morally acceptable guide to resolve the conflict?

Answer 3

Collectively made judgement by society

Question 4

An Australian tourist disagrees with the Malaysian court’s judgement convicting him for dangerous driving that resulted in a pedestrian’s death. The tourist had exhausted all avenues for appeal or pardon.

What should be the tourist’s morally right course of action?

Answer 4

Adhere with the court’s judgement and serve his conviction

Question 5

While the law forbids us from harming other people, moral requirements insist that we help others in society.”

What relationship between legal requirements and moral standards is emphasised in the above statement?

Answer 5

Law is often negative while the standards of morality are often more positive