Morally-Judgeable Action
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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, orA 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.
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- a Charitable Act, such as:
- 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.
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).