Compare The Ways In Which A Deontologist, An Act-Utilitarian, And A Rule-Utilitarian Would Be Concerned With Universalizability

Compare the ways in which a deontologist, an act-utilitarian, and a rule-utilitarian would be concerned with universalizability. Be sure to substantiate your claims with examples
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The deontologist's ethical underpinnings emanate from deontological ethics or deontology. This ethical position judges the morality or lack thereof of a problem based on rules. Thus, a deontologist's action would be considered moral however objectionable if carried out in pursuit of one's obligations or duty CITATION Kam07 \l 1033 (Kamm, 2007). The act utilitarian conceptual basis stems from the utilitarian theory of act utilitarianism. An action is judged to be moral, if and only if, the performance of any other action would produce a similar amount of happiness. The theory argues that mankind is under two sovereigns, pain and pleasure CITATION Fie09 \l 1033 (Fieser, 2009). Where the individual actions are in pursuit of one and avoidance of the other. The act utilitarian pursues doing good for the greatest number of people. Any action that achieves this, where no other action, could have achieved such, is, therefore, moral. The rule utilitarian, follow the utilitarian theory of rule utilitarianism. Where the morality of an action is dependent on whether such an action follows the rule that leads to the greatest good CITATION All08 \l 1033 (Habib, 2008).
The paper, therefore, will seek to compare these ethical position. The paper will determine how these positions relate and apply to Universalizability. Where Universalizability questions the morality of an action. The determinant being whether the universal of such an action would enhance or demean its ethical position. Universalizability accepts the morality of any action only where the universal application of the same action would be justifiable. The paper will seek to compare the ethical positions where actions are universalized and compare the same to different theoretical positions.
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The deontologist is constrained with duty and obligation as it applies to the law. An example to question the Universalizability of the ethical position would be as follow. A soldier’s duty is to protect their nation. It is the obligation and sworn duty to do this at whatever the cost. Thus, in our example, the soldier kills a civilian. The civilian looks like a terrorist. The deontologist would consider the action of killing justified. It is the soldier’s duty to kill, if necessary. If we universalize this action, where it is th...