Morally-Judgeable Action

A Morally-Judgeable Action is a conscious action (by a moral agent) that can be assessed by moral reasoning (as to whether it is a good moral act or bad moral act).

• AKA: Moral Agent Act.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be preceded by Moral Reasonings and Moral Intentions (such as the support of a moral system).
  • It can range from being a Good Moral Act to being a Bad Moral Act, depending on some moral judgement by a morality-judgement system.
  • It can range from being a Good Moral Decision to being a Bad Moral Decision.
  • It can range from being a Voluntary Moral Action to being a Forced Moral Action.
  • It can range from being an Economic Moral Act to being a non-Economic Moral Act, if it is also an economic act.
  • It can be an output of a Moral Decision Making Task, such as a medical triage task.
  • It can (often) affect the well being of some other Agent.
  • It can be based on a Moral Rule.
  • It can range from being a Simple Moral Action to being a Complex Moral Action.
  • It can range from being a Low-Stakes Moral Action to being a High-Stakes Moral Action.
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• Example(s):
  • a Charitable Act, such as: A donated M to UNICEF on date D, or A donated a kidney to random person P on date D.
  • a Activist Act, such as: I donated X to activist organization O on date D.
  • an Act of Hypocrisy.
  • an Act of Righteousness.
  • an Act of Violence.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Unavoidable Act.
  • a Hedonistic Choice.
  • an Economic Act.
  • a Linguistic Act.
• See: Moral Choice, Moral Belief, Ethical System, Self-Interested Choice.

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References

2009

• (Persad et al., 2009) ⇒ Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, and Ezekiel J Emanuel. (2009). “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions.” In: The Lancet Journal, 373(9661).

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