Write 150 words or more for two questions keeping in mind the Principle of Charity, assignment help

Please respond to #1 and #2 with 150 words or more for each one.

In each discussion forum, the object is to increase understanding of many different ethical views. Keep in mind the Principle of Charity. We have a responsibility to be open to new ideas about ethics here, just as you each have a responsibility to be open to your patients’ views. This openness includes the new theories introduced each week and the participants’ views expressed in the forum. Seek to understand a view or concept before criticizing it. If your understanding is incomplete, ask respectful questions targeted at the ideas, and not the person expressing them. Answer questions honestly and with respect.  We also have a responsibility to express our own views in such a way that invites discussion.  Avoid stereotypes and labelling groups or people, discussing ideas respectfully without use of irrelevant information about the arguer.  Avoidance of the ad hominem fallacy is crucial to ethical discussion.  This does not mean that disagreement is off limits! Disagreements are best made with support and respectful discourse and questioning. Going back to your own Initial Post (IP) and addressing questions is a great way to show respect for others who have asked questions in their Response post (RP) to your IP.

1. All most every thing in our day to day life involves some sort of contract like schools, work, bills, having kids and more. Rather it’s verbal or written, the point of it is to honor it. A contract is a legal agreement between two or more people.

 According to Igantieff, an contract of citizenship are the duties of care that public officials owe to the democratic society. After reading The Broken contract and watching the video on Crumbling America, I say the government is in a breech of contract. There is no way levees and bridges should break killing innocent people and the people didn’t have a clue of whats going on. Either the government new what was going on and didn’t notify the public or they failed to inspect the bridges and levees and there for was ignorance to what was going to happen. Either way it was a failure to keep the public safe. Part of the contract is to protect citizens and their families  from forces beyond  their control (Ignatieff, 2005). In so many ways they failed the citizens of the country. During the Katrina disaster there where so many people left behind and left for dead,  they truly broke the contract for protection. Majority of the people during hurricane Katrina were black and no way should a black person or poor person should have to remind fellow Americans that they are Americans (Igantieff, 2005). That is truly unacceptable in this day in age.

I think it will be hard to get the social contract back on track but it can be done. It first have to start with trust after all these incidents like bridges collapsing and levees breaking, the citizens don’t trust the government. Mostly because they been kept in the dark. I think letting everyone know and working to fix these defects that it wont happen again or if it does happen they have a plan in place. This can help put the people at ease.

2. After reading Michael Ignatieff’s esaay, “The Broken Contract”, I was instantly transported back to television camera circling from above showing people stranded on roof tops after Hurricane Katrina hit and nearly destroyed New Orleans.  Who was responsible for getting help to these people.  The government should have been on the spot immediately after the storm was over.  As the author suggests, the citizens of this country expect that they will have “protection of their possessions and of their families from forces beyond their control” (Ignatieff, 2005).  This expectation was not met, in fact was ignored when the hurricane hit the city.  The head of FEMA, , Michael Brown, somehow failed to realize his department was responsible for getting aid and comfort to the people who were suffering.  This produced another question: what was this man’s qualification for running a department that was responsible for getting help to people who need it most.  He was formerly a master of ceremonies for quarter house shows and was a political appointee of President Bush.  This man not only broke the contract with the people, he ignored it.  But in all fairness, how could he do anything but.  He was not qualified to run a department whose sole purpose is to make sure the citizens are safe from devastating forces.  The situation was made all the more intolerable when descriptions of how bad conditions were in the Super Dome were described, as people sought out shelter and waited for help that was not coming.  The contract was truly broken by all phases of the government and was enhanced even more when it showed that there was blatant discrimination being conducted by other authorities of the government, who ignored the pleas of black citizens and even went so far as to physically restrain them from reaching areas of safety where they could receive fresh food and water.  It was a very sad day for the contract to be honored.  The only way to get help people regain the trust of the government is by proof: the government must have people who actually know what they are doing and then act on the demands made of them from natural disaters that destroy people’s lives, and their hopes as well