Ethical Issue

Ethics and Aristotle

A married couple, both addicted to drugs, they are unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. Does an ethic support the law in this case? Discuss.

Consequentialist theories:

The natural parents have the right to take their daughter back; because to begin with drugs addiction is something out of their hand, and it something they didn’t planed it. Maybe they were young, immature and did not know the road they are going on. When a person is addicted to drugs they don’t make good judgments

Deontological theories

The natural parents have no right to take their daughter back; because the young girl doesn’t know any of them I don’t think she remembers any of them either. The only parents she knows are her foster parents. If the natural parents want their daughter back they should have thought of that before they started taking drugs. Drugs are something that you cannot take and then stop whenever you want. Taking care of their daughter was their duties not anybody else. . Also, there is a big chance they might go back on drugs, what happen then if they have their daughter back are they going to give her up again and how much is that going to hurt the girl.

One set of philosophical theories is categorized as consequentialist (sometimes

referred to as teleological, from the Greek telos). When you’re attempting to decide

what’s right or wrong, consequentialist theories focus attention on the results or consequences

of the decision or action. Consequentiality normative principles require that we first tally both the good and bad consequences of an...