Utilitarian and Cost-Benefit Analysis

     Different people would have different opinion on pleasure and pain. For Utilitarianism, I think they would say coming to school is good for you since it gives you a long-term benefit. You maybe suffer from finishing work on time and studying for quizes, tests, and exams, but at the end, you can go to a good university and get a good decent job. For the long-term happiness, I think Utilitarian would say it is worth it to come to school. You may encounter pain and tiredness, but in a long term, it benefits you.

     Utilitarianism would say that everything can be given value. They would calculate the exact cost for our tangible and intangible cost to compare the value pleasure and pain. For example, to see if you should come to school or not, utilitarian would have to value every costs (even friendship, tiredness, energy,etc) to be able to get the accurate answer. Still, everyone value things differently since we all have different interests, so it might be a disagreement in utilitarian.

Go to school - cost-benefit analysis

COST: 
Tangible Costs

• Transportation
• Food/Lunch
• Materials (ex. books, pencils, pen, etc.)
• Uniform
• Tuition Fee

Intangible Costs

• Tiredness
• Peer Pressure
• Stress
• Energy
• Time

BENEFIT:
Tangible Costs

• Salary and Good job
• School certification
• Transcript

Intangible Costs

• Knowledge
• Friendship
• Memories
• Learn to live and work with different people
• Opportunities

In the Face of Death Response

     From these 3 questions, I answered that it is wrong to kill the cabin boy and the coworker, but it is alright for Doctor Szwajger to kill her young patients. The result said it is not clear why I think killing young patients is right, but they said that from my answers to the cabin boy and the coworker is from my thinking that it is a selfish act.
     I think the result is right about my answers for cabin boy and the coworker. I believe killing people for your own benefit is wrong. The reason I think it is alright for the doctor to kill her young patient is that the patient would be killed by the Nazi afterward anyway. Therefore, I think it is better to get them to "sleep" in a more peaceful way. Also, those patients are not healthy at all. I think it would make them suffer more if I let the Nazi kill them. Killing someone is not morally right, but still, it is all based on people's different thinking and reason for their action.

Do Now #107

   There are always incomplete knowledge in our lives. Often, our beliefs are based on the old theory that may not be accurate. Even our solar system which has been long understanding that it composed of 9 planets changed 5 years ago after pluto was demoted from its planet.
   It has been found out some time this year that this belief is not accurate and that there is a new planet  named Tyche. Therefore, it is possible that our solar system may (again) has 9 planets. This is still however not proven and we shouldn't be certain that this theory is accurate. As some time in the future, we might develope a more powerful telescope and find new information about our solar system, and yet it might be possible that we are not alone in this solar system.