Utilitarianism

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one of many ideas that are not original to any individual person. Many of the ideas and "facts" that people live with in today's world are given to us by society. Through a very informal experiment conducted by myself as a precursor to the writing of this tutorial I found that a majority of people associate the word slavery only with the horrible condition and treatment that slaves of the confederate states suffered through. This is not the idea that is being addressed in this examination of . Any person who truly wishes to understand the true meaning of this argument must ignore these preconceived ideas about slavery. The definition of slavery that will be used in this paper is merely a person with less freedoms than a "free" person. The definition of slavery used in this paper relates a person with no legal status or protection under the law. Although this does leave a slave open to the abuses suffered by the slaves of the confederate states it must be clear that these ...

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justifiable; if not, then it was not justifiable. Furthermore a slave has a choice on whether or not he/she wants to perform the work required of him/her. Although the alternative to working may be as severe as death there still exists an option. Many people would say that this is no choice at all. I contend, however, that it is a choice - a choice that many people would not even consider because of the extremeness of death as opposed to working but there is still a choice. The consequences of each course of action may make the decision easy to make, but the decision is not made for the person. No matter how drastic the consequence may seem, one still has the choice of whether ...

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