The Ability Of Moral Choices

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P1: Moral actions require the ability to make moral choices.
P2: The ability to make right moral choices requires the ability to do something wrong.
C: Therefore, moral actions require the ability to do something morally wrong.
P1: Moral actions require the ability to make moral choices.
Ethics is the study of morality and morally correct actions. Problems of moral actions and moral choices will be eternal because there are no solutions for that problem. Morality by its own essence will always be a fundamental understanding of good versus evil. People will be divided into two categories: good, which understand the personal substance and social values leading to unity and moral perfection. And, the second category- evil, which leads to corruption …show more content…

Difficult choosing discloses people’s inherited characteristics. The main problem is that society tries to burden us with its ow list of morally good/bad choices. But, every human has its own compass which tells what is morally good/bad, and which situations requires them to make a reasonable decision. So, we can uncover our ability for moral commitment.
P2: The ability to make right moral choices requires the ability to do something wrong.
Everything in this life will have some opposition (good vs. evil), without that oppositions people cannot fully understand their essence of life. People cannot make all the time good choices, without being burnt on bad one with leading consequences. And, moral choices not an exception, as Mackie holds a view that there must be evil in the world is that we couldn’t know the good without evil. From that point, there must be ability to do something wrong in order to understand right moral choices.
The line would be so fragile, it feels like walking on thin ice which can be brake at any time, and consequences will be public scorn. On the example of student plagiarism(hypothetical example), I want to make a

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