You are required form your own ethical question conforming precisely with the following ethical topic. You will analyse the same ethical question in both assignments 1A and 1B. Do NOT use the sample questions provided.

1. Immigration Sample ethical question - Should Australia remove the cap on immigration?

Required tasks:

1. State your ethical question in one short sentence (2 marks- Marking Criteria: Understand concepts, Apply guidelines)

Use one of the two grammatical formats below to write your ethical question.

Is [action X] ethical?

or

Should [actor Y] do [action X]?

Examples

• Is capital punishment ethical?

  In this example, the action is capital punishment.

• Should the Australian government execute convicted murderers?

  In this example, the actor is the Australian government and the action is executing convicted murderers.

b. Explain why your chosen ethical question is important and worthy of your analysis? (2 marks- Marking Criteria: Understand concepts, Depth of research)

c. Identify and fully reference 3 key facts relevant to the analysis of your ethical question. (6 marks- Marking Criteria: Depth of research, Referencing) (Hint: you need to identify the act and actor central to the ethical question)

d. Using act utilitarianism forecast two important positive and two important negative consequences of the ethical act. These forecasts of consequences need to wherever possible draw on the key facts from part c above. (8 marks- Marking Criteria: Understand concepts, Apply theory, Analyse and interpret information)

e. Provide an answer to your ethical question with supporting rationale.

(2 marks- Marking Criteria: Analyse and interpret information)

It is a 750 word report, thank you!