Ethical Analysis of the Movie "I"

8/18/2019 Ethical Analysis of the Movie "I"

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hical Dilemma In Movie


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• In his journey from a bodybuilder to a top model, Lingesanmakes many enemies, including John, whose modellingcareer was ruined due to Lingesan's rising popularity,

Osma, who was infatuated by Lingesan and proposed tohim, only to be rejected, industrialist Indrakumar, whosecompany suered losses when Lingesan refused toendorse their soft drink as it was reported to containpesticides; and another bodybuilder a!i, who also

competed for the "r# $amil %adu title but lost to Lingesan# $hese four people conspire to take re!enge on Lingesanand destroy his fame and modelling career#

How the Rivalry has

been Spread forLingesan


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Is thisright


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!rofessional Rivalr

Dilemma "


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Description

&ompetition can enhance ones (uality, alsoit has the power to degrade the person#

)rofessional ri!alries often seem like the

ultimate waste of time# *ach and *!ery person has &ompetitor in his

or her profession but how he or she dealswith them is an art#

$here are two type of mentality we mainly+nd in people#one who is always jealousfrom their competitor and always think howto side track them by being a back stabber#and the another one who belie!e that they

can glean important lessons from their ri!als


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Jealousy is !alid but losing your core !alues andualities wearing a curtain of jealousy o!er you is an

un ethical thing# -ou, being jealous should not destroy another

innocent indi!iduals career that he has made byworking hard and without harming you#

#rg$ments


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.ccording to /antian ethics theory greatestgood is good will# /ant says do good because

you ha!e a duty to do good, the conseuencesare totally irrele!ant# $aking re!enge is alsoagainst to uni!ersal ma0im#

.ccording to /antian ethics theory a personshould respect sportsman1ship and try to worke!en harder to gain back the place which helost#

#nalysis


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.ccording to 2tilitarianism greatest good is ma0imum number ofhappiness#

E% 3 4uppose there is a person who becomes so successful in his

profession that he has o!er shadowed more than many of his peers#5ecause of it, those peers loose their current positions# $hosewounded and lost peers would want to stage6take7 a re!enge#

So can this type of tho$ght process be admired

If we think of this scenario from the domain of utilitarian ethicstheory than we can ob!iously say that those peers are rightbecause this scenario satis+es ma0imum happiness priority#

o$nter #rg$ment


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$he failure would always be !ictimi8ed by agony and feeling ofre!enge#

• 9hy is one spending so much time worrying about whatsomeone else is doing:

• 9hy doesnt one focus on his or her own business:

• Its true that obsessing about a competitor isnt the healthiestlong1term acti!ity#

5ut I!e also come to belie!e that you can glean importantlessons from the !ery act of ri!alry if you use it as anopportunity for growth, rather than just an opportunity to crushyour enemies# 4o it is good to be /antian and learn fromothers success, and apply it to your methodology of work andrise again#

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#pple vs Sams$ng

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)rofessional i!alry


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&ase O!er!iew .pple sued 4amsung for copying its

product ideas istrict &ourt of

%orthern &alifornia states in .pril @st,AB@@#

.pples &laim

&opied 3look, product design,)ackaging

)roducts3Cala0y 4, Cala0y 4 II, %e0us 4etc#

&ounter &laim by 4amsung 4amsung also claimed that .pple

infringes on se!eral of its patentsha!ing to do with wireless

communications technology and


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9e think that in this type of cases /antian ethicsmust come because according to /antian ethics to

infringes patents is against the uni!ersal ma0im#

oncl$sion of ,his iss$e


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Dilemma .en yo$r dignity and self/esteem are at


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Is this right


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• -ou are dragged into making a decision which woulddetermine your future with the organi8ation#

• 9ould you be draped in your dignity and reject the oer,stepping down with your head held high:

Description


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• -our >ecision >epends on the Oer, if the oeris such that it would bene+t millions, then theutilitarian person would accept without

thinking of hisher dignity and career#

• $he /antian person would think that whetheraccepting the oer is good and has compliancewith the uni!ersal ma0im or is !iolating that#


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• $he 2tilitarianism theory will not work here#

• If you are ready to sacri+ce your self esteem and dignity,

either falling prey to someone elses demands or foryour own bene+t then it is something which is !iolatingthe uni!ersal ma0im according to the /ant#

#rg$ments


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• 5ut if a considerable amount of innocentpeople are going to be aected by the decisionyou make, then sacri+cing your dignity andcareer for the bene+t of those people is theethical thing to do#

o$nterarg$ments


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ImagineK• -ou ha!e a poor family in ussia

• -ou cant aord your rent, or to feed your young children

• . friend of a friend tells you they know someone looking for awaitress in a neighboring country, and can guarantee you a job

• $hey oer to accompany you in your trip and tell you that in a

short time you will be able to send money back to your family• 9ould you accept: Gow many would allow their sisters, wife, or

daughters to go:

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LIHI%C I% *.

• 4e0 $racking .round the 9orld


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9GO .* $G* HI&$I"4:

• AM "illion )eople are

*nsla!ed $oday1

o!er twice as many as in the

@M and @= hundreds

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$he majority are womenand children

• &hildren as young as E

• $racking is a worldwide

business

• $he a!erage sla!e costs DFB16factors7


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H)( D)ES ,HISH#!!E'

• O!erseas people are tricked into thinking they are getting work

• *0otic dancers are targeted

• 4treet children are often abducted and sold

• 2#4 $ourists can be abducted as well1 Less common, but stillhappens

• In 2#4 more sophisticated schemes1 modeling, acting,dancing etcK


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,HE ,R#11I&2ERS

• MN of the time, the women know the person that sells

them into sla!ery• 2sually an acuaintance, but can also be family members

6ather, 5rother, 5oyfriend etcK7

• $racker only responsible for girls while in their control,then they ne!er hear about them again#


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(HERE D)ES ,HIS H#!!E'

• .LL OH* $G* 9OL>, 2#4 I%&L2>*>

• "assage parlors, tanning salons,

hotels, homes, and warehouses

• 4an rancisco is one of the main

places for tracking I% $G* 9OL>

• 4acramento on its wayP

• &ostal areas and states that

border &anada"e0ico


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(H)SE (ILLI'3 ,) !#4

• "ajority @N1FB yr# old men

• "ostly married men

• athers bring sons to

4how them a Qgood timeR

• )ay more for younger girls,

and QcleanR girls

• Once the money is paid

and the door is shut, the

QpimpR doesnt care what goes on


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3)5ER'ME', E'#6LERS

• &ustoms ocials often paid o for illegal entry of sla!es

• 5lackmailed into cooperating

• Low priority for go!ernment ocials

• &osts lots of money to start a raid or open a case

• Little punishment for those con!icted


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#1,ER/E11E&,S

• 9hen they become QworthlessR to trackers, women arethrown out on the streets

• "any die while in sla!ery due to diseases, and drug

o!erdoses• If they are not on drugs during sla!ery, many turn to drugs

after the fact

• Less than N get help after the fact


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Gere, taking decisions by following

/antian ethics is de+nitely moresuitable, because it supports the2ni!ersally accepted fact#

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Its all about &O%4*(2*%&*4##PPP

Dilemma 7

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• 9hen Lingesan becomes more popular in modeling and ad!ertisement

industry, One cold drink company oers him a contract to ad!ertise fortheir product but that product contains to0ic substances and is !ery

harmful to people who use it#

• 4o if Lingesan accepts that contract then thousands of his fans will suer

and if he denies it, he will lose money and may be e!en his carrier#


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9ould you turn down an oer which could

be a huge leap forward in your career, just for the sake of mankind and good

health of the millions:


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#rg$ments

• If the person is utilitarian then he would surely care for

the millions and would decline his careers greatestoer, because this would sa!e the millions of li!es#

• 5ut if the person follows the /antian ethics then hewould decline the oer because supporting the wrongthing is not right according to the uni!ersal ma0im#


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• .ccording to &L.44I&.L 2tilitarianism 3 utility of anaction is de+ned as the o!erall balance betweenhappiness and unhappiness produced by the action#

• 5enthams !ersion 3 1

• Gappiness is identi+ed with the pleasure 6and theabsence of pain7#

• 2nhappiness is identi+ed with pain 6and the

depri!ation of pleasure7#

#'#L4SIS


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• In this scenario ,the hero should decline an opportunityand sa!e the life of millions of people#

• 1rom the fo$r ma:or theses of 8,ILI,#RI#'ISMone is applied here -

8niversalism- $he conseuences to be consideredare those of e!eryone aected, and e!eryone eually#

• .ccording to 2%IH*4.L ".SI" , decline the proposaland sa!e the li!es is good and right thing#

• 5ecause here, it is the matter of life and death#


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• $he group of enemy decided to inject the !irus in heros bodyand made his life hell#

• $hen according to 5enthams theory it is morally right thingbecause his death did not cause grief to most of people#

• 52$ K##

• Is this right that gi!ing happiness to ma0imum number of

people by killing an innocent man::

)8',ER #R38ME',S


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• .7 -ou attempt to help an elderly man across the street# Ge getacross safely#

&onclusion 31 the act was a good act#

• 57 -ou attempt to help an elderly man across the street# -ou stumbleas you go , he gets knocked into the path of a car, and is hurt#

&onclusion 31 the act was a bad act#

• $herefore , 2$ILI$.I.%I4" $G*O- is always depends on the&O%4*(2*%&*4 , and !ery far to predict the 2$2* KPPP

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• In certain circumstances as discussed on pre!ious slide,2tilitarianism plays fast and does not take into account the actionsas Cods commandments#

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If lying, stealing, or killing could lead to an increase of happinessfor the greatest number, we are told we should lie, steal or kill#

• Isnt that a rejection of Cods commands:

• 4O, we ha!e to think according to (2.LI$- of happiness rather than(2.%$I$- of happiness#

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or e0ample, some might +nd happiness with a pitcher of beer anda pi88a# Others may +nd happiness watching a +ne 4hakespeareanplay# $he ;$ality of happiness is greater with the latter#

&oncl$sion


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Loyalty is one of the tools pro!ided by nature to win a)ersons Geart

Dilemma <

Loyalty


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)rogressingtowards the endof the storyLingesanbecomesphysically un1attracti!e andalso !ery muchhandicappedbecause of the

inTuen8a !irus#

4hould >iya stayloyal to her lo!ewhich shethought was

eternal and stay


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. person, lo!es you the most, and has sacri+ced hisher lifeto bring you up, and now its your turn to return to himher,assume that helping him can aect your carrier#

%ow assume that the person could be your parentsgrandparents, brothersister, your former lo!er, your truefriend#

4o, the >ilemma in front of you is either do care about carrierand lea!e that person into misery or be loyal to that personand supporthelp himher:

oyal can yo$ be to a !erson loving yo$


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• Loyalty is one of the uality that dierentiate mammals fromother animals#

• Lo!e, >edication, kindness from +rst mammal makes another

mammal loyal to the former#• 4el+shness, "isunderstanding, clashes are the hurdles to the

loyalty#

#nalysis


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• . utilitarian person would think about the conseuence ofbeing loyal to the person who sacri+ced for you#

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Ge would think that whether being loyal can snatch thehappiness from millions of peoples, e#g#31 if you are doing some job where millions of peoples are bene+ted from you, thenutilitarian would continue the job and lea!e the idea of beingloyal#

tilitarian=s #nalysis


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• . /antian would be loyal to the person thatlo!ed him so much and dedicated his life to the

former# 5ecause being loyal is his duty to thelatter person for his sacri+ce#

2antian=s 5iew


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• "ost popular disloyalty cases are abandoning of parentsto old1age homes by their children# )arents sacri+cetheir happiness, time, eorts, for their children, and in

return when their child grows up, they +nd their parentsburden and send them to old1age homes# $hey e!encant gi!e a small place to their parents to li!e in theirbig house#


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• 5eing an /antian would be bene+cial here because /antian)hilosophy supports duty rather than &onseuence unlike2tilitarianism# 5ecause predicting conseuences is complicated

according to /ant#

• $he person would be true human being if he follows the/antian *thics here#

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