Flint Water Crisis Research Paper

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Imagine coming home one day after school and going to fix a glass of ice cold water. However, when you turn on the water faucet you first see brown water, and then you smell a disgusting aroma. In my paper I will incorporate Mill’s and Aristotle’s views on the Flint Water Crisis. I will use Mill’s view on utility judgement to refute Governor Snyder’s decision, and the use of his business methods. There will be a detailed timeline to illustrate the situations that led to the Flint Water Crisis. I am going to explain some reasons why Mill’s Utilitarianism is an efficient way for government to understand its ethics. Is it possible for an action that makes you happy mean less compared to an action that will make the society happy? In this essay …show more content…

The need in this instance was healthy water. “For though this good is the same for the individual and the state, yet the good of the state seems a grander and more perfect thing both to attain and to secure; and glad as one would be to do this service for a single individual. To do it for a people and for a number of states is nobler and more divine (The Nicomachean Ethics pg. 64).” Aristotle wants us all to aim for happiness, but there are exceptions to his Governor Snyder was not focused on wealth in terms of money. “For it (wealth) is merely useful as a means to something else (The Nicomachean Ethics pg. 67).” He was focused on wealth in terms of prestige, honor, and political superiority. There has to be rules for government officials that prohibits them from hurting the people they work for. Aristotle would say that Governor Snyder was putting the wealth as the end and not happiness. “Happiness seems more than anything else to answer to the description for we always choose it for itself, and never for the sake of something else; while honor and pleasure… we choose for the sake of happiness (The Nicomachean Ethics pg.

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