Scenario: Amin

Write an essay on citations and references do not count towards the word limit, but quotations do.
Analyse the article/case study from the perspective of at least two different classical ethical theories, one of which must be that of "Just Consequentialism". Present well reasoned arguments for your assessments and recommendations.
Write an overall conclusion that justifies your recommendations made in your essay.
Include a Reference list at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations.

 

Scenario - Amin Sthapit has been murdered by Roy Abanales Tabalbag in Sydney Australia (Begley 2015). The motive of this murder is that Roy Abanales Tabalbag found her former girlfriend having sex with Amin Sthapit at the time of his absence which is completely illegal. Since few months, Roy Abanales Tabalbag was suspecting that her girlfriend is involved with someone else (Begley 2015). He was tracking her girlfriend’s phone from last few months. Her girlfriend, Geecy Rebucas cancelled her cooking school lecture and called Amin Sthapit while his boyfriend was not present (Begley 2015). Then he came at the flat and caught her girlfriend cheating on him. Therefore, He lost his self control and murdered Amin Sthapit with the chef’s knife (Begley 2015).

Stakeholders – As a result of this incident, three people have been mainly affected. These three people are Amin Sthapit who have been killed, the murderer, Roy Abanales Tabalbag and Geecy Rebucas who was caught by Tabalbag while having sex with Amin (Begley 2015).

            Ethical Issues – All of the stakeholders have done several ethical issues. These are as follows,

1. First of all, Geecy Rebucas, former girlfriend of Roy Abanales Tabalbag has cheated on her boyfriend, with whom she was in a relationship for 4 years. She hide the fact from her that boyfriend she was involved with another guy named Amin Sthapit (Begley 2015).
2. On the other hand, the Amin Sthapit also made an ethical issue or a wrongdoing by keeping an illegal relationship with someone else’s girlfriend (Begley 2015).
3. Roy Abanales Tabalbag murdered Amin Sthapit by losing his self-control which is a non-ethical issue.

Non-ethical Issues – the murder done by Roy Abanales Tabalbag should not be regarded as unethical as the most unethical incident has been occurred with him. As a result of which, he lost his self control and murdered Amin (Begley 2015).

Consequences – Three of the stakeholders of this scenario may face several consequences.

1. The murderer, Roy Abanales Tabalbag would be penalized due to the crime like murder.
2. As a consequence of the non-ethical issue made by Amin Sthaper, he was killed by Roy Abanales Tabalbag.
3. As a consequence of the non-ethical issue made by Geecy Rebucas, he lost her boyfriend and she has become alone (Begley 2015).

Ethical Analysis

Consequentialism – It is the class of the normative ethical theories those hold the fact that the consequences of the conduct of an individual are the actual basis for any judgement regarding the wrongness or rightness of that conduct. As per the theory of Consequentialism, the judgement would go against the murderer, Roy Abanales Tabalbag as he has done the major crime (Scheffler and Scheffler 2014). He murdered Amin which is actually considered as the biggest crime (Carlson 2013). However, judgement can be made in a sympathetic way. On the other hand, Amin has lost his life therefore; justice should be made with respect to this particular theory (Aguilar, Brussino and Fernández-Dols 2013). However, according to the theory, Geecy Rebucas would not be penalized as she did not make any direct crime. However, she was involved in a serious unethical activity (Berker 2013).

Just Consequentialism – this particular theory mainly emphasizes the consequences or the issues obtained due to the policies within the justice constraints (Brand 2013). The fact of this theory can be reflected in this scenario (Peterson 2013). Therefore, it must be said that along with Roy Abanales Tabalbag, the former girlfriend Geecy Rebucas should also be penalized as she has also done a crime by breaking trust of Roy Abanales Tabalbag (Levy 2014). Thus, this judgment should be made based on the moral aspect.

Options –

1. First of all, Geecy Rebucas should not break the trust of her boyfriend, Roy Abanales Tabalbag.
2. Amin Sthapit should not come between the couple as he knows that both of them are in a serious relationship.
3. Geecy Rebucas should not hide her feelings about someone else to her boyfriend.
4. Most importantly, Roy Abanales Tabalbag should not do that crime of murdering Amin.
5. Roy Abanales Tabalbag can go with the legal procedure.

Conclusion

After the entire analysis as well as discussion made in this discussion, it can be said that people have to be very careful about the ethical as well as the unethical aspects of any activity made by them. According to both of the theories such as Consequentialism as well as Just Consequentialism, all of the suggestions should be accomplished by Roy Abanales Tabalbag, Geecy Rebucas and Amin Sthapit. All of these recommendations could be proven as very much effective for three of them. This is because, if three of them would follow these recommendations therefore, such crime like murder would not be taken place. However, people should learn some crucial leanings from the outcome of such critical scenario. People should do everything in an ethical way. The unethical activities always results in several troubles to the people who actually accepts the unethical activities. People should also remember that if any unethical activity is taken place by someone thus, then he or she should always be ready to face the penalty as a result of that wrongdoing made by him or her.

Reference List

Aguilar, P., Brussino, S. and Fernández-Dols, J.M., 2013. Psychological distance increases uncompromising consequentialism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(3), pp.449-452

Begley, P. 2015. Amin Sthapit murder trial: accused Roy Tabalbag 'provoked' into killing girlfriend Geecy Rebucas's lover. [online] The Sydney Morning Herald. Available at: https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/amin-sthapit-murder-trial-accused-roy-tabalbag-provoked-into-killing-girlfriend-geecy-rebucass-lover-20150601-ghdzge [Accessed 30 May 2016].

Berker, S., 2013. The rejection of epistemic consequentialism. Philosophical Issues, 23(1), pp.363-387.

Brand, J., 2013. Beyond Consequentialism. Philosophical Review, 122(4), pp.657-661.

Carlson, E., 2013. Consequentialism reconsidered (Vol. 20). Springer Science & Business Media

Levy, S., 2014. The Failure of Hooker’s Argument for Rule Consequentialism. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 11(5), pp.598-614.

Peterson, M., 2013. The dimensions of consequentialism: Ethics, equality and risk. Cambridge University Press.

Scheffler, S. and Scheffler, S., 2014. Rejection of Consequentialism. Oxford.