Initial Post Instructions Rather than living in chaos, danger, and the hostility of our neighbors, we find ways to live

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Initial Post Instructions Rather than living in chaos, danger,
and the hostility of our neighbors, we find ways to live together.
It isn't easy, but can we avoid doing so? If everybody has
self-interest in their own welfare and safety, then everybody also
has self-interest in the welfare and safety of others.
Self-interest involves community interest, and we must think about
what we are willing to give up in order to get that safety and
stability for ourselves, our families, our community, our nation,
and even the world. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are just two
examples of social contract moralists. Locke's philosophy helped
Thomas Jefferson formulate the United States Declaration of
Independence. We are interested in what it means to live together
in an orderly way under a social contract.
Initial Post Instructions For the initial post, address one of
the following sets of questions: What is a time when you or someone
you know of experienced a conflict between duty to self and loyalty
to the community?
What would logical reasoning say should be done in that case?
Why that? What would an Ethical Egoist say to
do?
Why would they say to do that?
Note what you feel is the best course of action. What is a time
when you or someone you know experienced a clash between
professional duties and familial duties?
Reference a professional code such as that of the
American Nurses Association or American Bar Association in
explaining the clash. What moral values should have been
used in that case? Why those values? What would social contract
ethics have said to have done? Why would social contract ethics say
that?
Note what you feel is the best course of action. Articulate and
evaluate a time when you or someone you know saw personal
obligations collide with national obligations. How did that tension
involve differing positions on a moral debate? Did those positions
rely on any key moral theories? If so, how so? If not, why not?
Note what you feel is the best course of action.