Utilitarianism and Anti-Utilitarianism

Baujard, Antoinette

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2357441

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“…Once more, the data suggest an attachment to the smartphone is not an issue but what the attachment is used for. Like the uses and gratification theory, the foregoing findings align with the utilitarian theory (Baujard, 2013;Driver, 2009). Via such an approach, smartphone controls and measured uses stand to add value to academic institutional expectations and orientations.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Accordingly, smartphone controls and measured uses stand to add value to academic institutional expectations for addicted smartphone users. At least, the quality of utility rational attitude stands to merge expected use, gratifications, and civil standards of smartphone making and management towards academic standards and positive outcomes (Baujard, 2013).…”

Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Smartphone addiction avoidance via inherent ethical mechanisms and influence on academic performance

Okpara

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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Due to smartphones’ high use and penetration, it has become pertinent to interrogate addiction issues concerning inbuilt user control mechanisms and relative use for academic enhancement among university students. Based on the postulations of the uses and the gratification theory and utilitarian theory of ethics, it has been framed that smartphones are not the key issue but how smartphones are used. The study adopted a survey research design using a questionnaire instrument to collect data from 250 students at a university in Lagos, Nigeria. The findings revealed that smart attachment and addiction are extremely high among the students. However, user controls are not just a matter of default inbuilt ethical control mechanisms, but also deliberately habitual towards academically relevant outcomes. It was also revealed that how one uses smartphones and what one uses smartphones for, are more critical to academic performance than understanding and satisfaction with the inherent inbuilt control mechanism. In essence, good management of smartphone attachment or addiction issues is more of a matter of habit than it is about inherent ethical smartphone controls. The study, therefore, concluded that manufacturers must take active measures to align smartphone ethical inherent controls with emerging artificial intelligence. Such synergy would suffice to orient users toward improvement. Also, active smartphone user philosophy for self-benefitting purposes is vital. In other words, both manufacturers and users of smartphones have a role in smartphone attachment–addiction management–not just ethical inherent control mechanisms.

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Section: Discussion Of Findingsmentioning

confidence: 54%

Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphone addiction avoidance via inherent ethical mechanisms and influence on academic performance

Okpara

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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“…It also allows for very large increases of happiness to a few to compensate for many small decreases in happiness for the many, as long as the sum total is positive. This argument justifies the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor (Ale et al., 2018, 2019; Baujard, 2013). On the other hand, the principle supports the idea that a decrease in the happiness for some can be compensated by the increase of happiness for the rest.…”

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confidence: 97%

The ethical dilemmas of risky decisions

Ale

Slater²,

Hartford³

2022

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Even in a pandemic there seem to be inherent conflicts of interest between the individual and societal consequences of remedial actions and strategies. Actions taken in the sole interests of patients, as required by the Hippocratic oath, can have broadly inconvenient economic implications for the State. ("Average" benefits for a population can impose individual inconveniences for the vulnerable.). Understandably these decisions are not normally made explicitly and transparently by governments. This leads to seemingly illogical and inhumane strategies which are not understood and hence mistrusted and often ignored by the public. Vaccination sentiments on social media are often an unwanted symptom of this dilemma. This article outlines and discusses a number of examples of such situations with a focus on ethical aspects. It concludes that each case must be considered individually as to the issues that need to be weighed in these difficult decisions; and that there are no clear and universally acceptable ethical solutions. What can be learned from the COVID-19 crisis is that short term utilitarianism has consequences that in the eyes of the population are unacceptable. This lesson seems equally valid for cost benefit evaluations regarding other risks, such as from hazardous industries, flood defenses, and air transport. Decisionmakers and politicians can learn that persuasion only goes so far. In the end the people appear to prioritize in terms of deontology.

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“…Bentham, in his theory, emphasised the moral rights to respect others' essential interests, such as life and liberty (Baujard, 2013). These include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery, freedom of expression, the right to education and others.…”

Section: To Compel or Not: Human Right Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Compulsory Vaccination for Children: Violation of Human Rights?

Shukor

Khan

Ghazali

2021

UUM Journal of Legal Studies

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Immunisation protection includes vaccination programme that is very crucial to prevent the spread of disease among children or those with low immune systems. However, the cases of contagious diseases such as measles have increased dramatically in many countries around the world, including Malaysia. This may be partly due to the rise of certain groups or movements that do not believe in the efficacy of the vaccines. This paper outlined the scenario and existing framework on the administration of the vaccines in Malaysia, with respect to the practices of some countries namely the United State, Italy and Singapore on the implementation of the immunisation programme to its community. Subsequently, this paper highlighted the issues on compulsory vaccination on whether it violated the fundamental liberties incorporated in the Federal Constitution. The researchers adopted a doctrinal approach, whereby materials were compiled from the Malaysian and other jurisdictions’ legislations, case laws, journal articles, and databases. This paper is intended for policymakers as well as the public to understand the possibility for implementing compulsory vaccinations from a legal perspective.

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Utilitarianism and Anti-Utilitarianism

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Smartphone addiction avoidance via inherent ethical mechanisms and influence on academic performance

Smartphone addiction avoidance via inherent ethical mechanisms and influence on academic performance

The ethical dilemmas of risky decisions

Compulsory Vaccination for Children: Violation of Human Rights?

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