Analyzing the Parable of the Sadhu
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:29:27
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 6 pages (1605 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 6 pages (1605 words)
Egoism: Does the action promote the person's long term interest.
Here the question is what action promotes McCoy's & the hiker's interest. The main purpose of all the hikers was to travel to Nepal and have a "once in a life time experience". It is conceivable that this is consistent with everyone's best interests, while helping the Sadhu is clearly not. Action was ethical. However the fact that McCoy feels guilty reflects that he …
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…mountain path, the Sadhu was not welcomed by a community. He was attended to by people who were at least as nice as McCoy was; people who met the minimum, but by people who wanted to be on their way and back on track. We are not deprecating their efforts - they may have saved a life. But we do not envy them their special hell - did the Sadhu live or did he die?
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