Veterans

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TUI University

Ruthie Swindell

Module4 Case Assignment

ETH301: Business Ethics

Dr. Lois Hammond

24 September 2010

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Disabled Veteran’s Deserve More Than A Handshake

Logic is mainly known as the study of argument which is mainly used in intellectual activities but is mainly studied in the studies of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science. Philosophy is the one I will focus on in this case assignment which is the study of general and fundamental problems which concerns existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. With that knowledge being applied to you I will address you with a question should disabled veterans get preferential treatment over better qualified candidates who are not disabled veterans? I believe in the utilitarian and deontology view yes they should. They should be offered the training and the benefit of the doubt that they are capable of getting the job done, they made it home didn’t they?

Affirmative action refers to the policies that take into consideration the factors of race, color, gender, religion or national religion into consideration in order to benefit a history of discrimination. The utilitarianism view states for the greater good of the greatest amount are morally right. Deontology states to bind one to their duty. In an affirmative action is it right to say that it is our duty and what’s right for the majority to base hiring practices off of

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Disabled Veteran’s Deserve More Than A Handshake

the color of one’s skin, gender, religion or where they come from? I would hope not I would not want the person that barely understood a class performing emergency procedures on me or anyone for that matter. We owe it to ourselves to not judge one but to try and appreciate what they are capable of. Based on the merit if I went to community college and worked a full time job verses one that went to a University and lived with their parent’s they may not view me as most deserving of the job, would you? I...