Week 10 (second last week before debate)

How do we define cheating?

• Determining if the ethos of the game tolerates the rule violation

  • Set of shared norms for interpreting the rules, including the context and unwritten rules

  • Rule violations and unfair advantages for personal gain

  • Not all unethical or unlawful actions are synonymous with cheating

What is the defensive violation argument?

• Recognizes that offensive and defensive violations differ

• Offensive violations attempt to secure advantage for self over people complying with rules (unacceptable)

• Defensive violations attempt to protect against being disadvantaged (maybe acceptable)

What is the limited sacrifice argument?

• Some self interested rule violations may be morally acceptable

  • Conditions when rule violations can be justified

    • When the rule breaking is public knowledge and accepted as a fact of life

    • When resisting breaking the rule is clearly morally pointless or will produce more harm than good

What is the non functioning rule argument?

• Golden rule: treat others how you wish to be treated

• Copper rule: treat others how they treat you

How do we check for self deceptive rationalization?

• TV test

• Generalizability Test

• Mirror Test

What is autonomy?

• Self government (law and rule)

  • Having the capacity and freedom to make informed, uncoerced decisions and independent choices

What is Mill’s Harm Principle?

• Liberty supersedes safety for actions that only affect oneself

• We should only interfere if doing so will prevent harm to others

• Mill argued that utility will be produced by upholding freedom of choice

What is liberty and agency?

• Liberty (independence from controlling influences)

  • Lack of constraints

  • Ability to decide for self what happens to your life

• Agency (capacity for intentional action)

  • Autonomy is meaning if we have nothing to choose from