Here is the link to the article I will be blogging about for this week. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-30948179
Lizzie Valesquez has had a tough life, being born with Marfan and lipodystrophy diseases. The posting on youtube by somebody intentionally bullying her by labeling her "The World's Ugliest Woman" did not make her life any better. The video had been watched over 4 million times. Rosenstand (2013) states "According to the utilitarian calculation, a great number of people may be hugely entertained by the immense suffering of one or a few."(pg. 244) Over 4 million people watched the video and made crude jokes and comments about this poor girl at her expense. The entertainment they received at her expense is and example of the utilitarian view. I commend her parents though for raising her to look positively and not giving into to the comments she viewed from the youtube video as she has shown great resiliency. With this, in turn the negative views and comments she's received have empowered her to pressure congress into passing an anti-bullying bill as well as provide inspiration for over 7 million people with her speech from the popular Ted talk. Applying the utilitarian approach again it could be argued that with her suffering it has also led to the many being also inspired through her resiliency.
References:
Rosenstand, N. (2013). The moral of the story: An introduction to ethics (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Hawkins, K. (2015, March 14). 'Online bullies called me the world's ugliest woman' Retrieved March 15, 2015, from http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-30948179
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