$5.($YOU MUST WRITE NOTES ON THIS QUESTION$)$Show me a great fortune and I$$ll show you a great crime.$($a translation from Honor$$ de Balzac$)$ My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:

a$.$ Clearly Balzac had taken too much hashish when he wrote that!

b$.$ It is completely possible to make a fortune by legal means $$ in fact this is what I intend to do in my life.

c$.$ I don't care $-$ watch out Elon Musk, here I come!

d$.$ I think that this is absolutely true.

e$.$ Even if great fortunes are acquired in a technically legal way, they are always morally problematic.

Choice now: B

Choice in assignment $1$: B Notes:

$8.$Of the top $10$ wealthiest people $($all men$),$ eight are tech billionaires. Their net worth is US$ $1\mathrm{.}1$ trillion or ZAR $22$ trillion!$$ My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:

a$.$ I think that such wealth is utterly immoral when there is so much poverty and suffering in the world and so active steps should be taken to correct this.

b$.$ These billionaires are all tech visionaries and deserve every cent of their wealth because of their brilliance.

c$.$ Why would anyone want or need that amount of money?

d$.$ These are my heroes. I aspire to be like them.

e$.$ Bill Gates is one of them and look at how much money he is giving to the poor through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Choice now: A

Choice in assignment $1$: E Notes:

$9.60\%$ of the world$$s cobalt is mined in the DRC$.$ Significant amounts of this is mined under appalling conditions often by child labourers.$$ My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:

a$.$ What$$s cobalt got to do with to me$?$

b$.$ The DRC is a long way from where I live so I don$$t really care.

c$.$ This is just a fact of global supply chains and necessary for global economic growth, which is in everyone$$s best interest.

d$.$ I wonder who is profiting out of this?

e$.$ It breaks my heart to see children exploited. This is morally wrong and must not be allowed.

Choice now: E

Choice in assignment $1$: E Notes:

Based on the chosen choices of both:choice now and choice in assignment $1$

$$ Write notes with meaningful references to the major theories that we covered $($deontology$,$ consequentialism, distributive justice, virtue ethics and environmental ethics$).$

You must first state what you think of each question personallu before applying theories

Write you think about each question and how it affect you before applying the theories