Reim Time*

*A girl named Tasha Reimer came up with this clever nick name for the Reimer camaraderie on campus.

So I have the pleasure of writing a sweet Ethical Reasoning paper on the human moral duty to feed the starving people of the world. I'll be using Kant's Catagorical Imperative (which states that we should act only according to the maxim that we would at the same time will that it become a universal law) to support that claim. Then I will argue against Kant's Catagorical Imperative using the argument of Ethical Egoism which states that we ought to do only what is in our self-interest to do, and this excludes expending effort to feed starving people. I will then counter the argument of Ethical Egoism with the argument that Ethical Egoism is unacceptably arbitrary and therefore fails as a moral theory. Ethical egoism demands an unacceptably arbitrary preference to one's own interests dividing the world into two categories: oneself and the rest of the world. It requires different treatment of different people for no justifiable reason and therefore it should be discounted for the same reason as racism. I will then back up my (now destroyed) argument against Kant's Categorical Imperative by using Ayn Rand's Philosophy which states that any moral theory that does not place an indefinitely higher priority on the needs and interests of self, violates the worth of the individual in a vulgar and reproachable manner. She states that, "the basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. . . The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice – which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction – which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good." After pointing out the many flaws of Ayn Rand's theory, I will declare that I have sufficiently proven that as humans we have a moral duty to feed the starving people of the world on the basis of Kant's Categorical Imperative.

So now I'm going to go write my paper... I hope you enjoyed your lesson on Ethical Reasoning. :)

S-double rubble