Poor business First off I never got the book although the payment was taken out of my account. When I tried to email the seller they never got back with me, which that really made me made. The order was place 18 may and here it is 17June wow! Talk about bad business.....
The Right Thing To Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy In a world that refuses to mend, this book and the like provides a starting point in the process of becoming a conscientious moral agent.Textbook This book is part of my required textbooks for school. It's very informative and interesting.The Right Thing To Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy I ordered this book for a college class. A classmate of mine discovered that her book was missing pages. I checked my book and found the same problem. Apparently the publisher did not perform a quality check on their books. Pages 90-127 are missing from this book. Insensitive and biased, or brilliant? Natalia's response makes one wonder whether she herself was perhaps among the unfortunate babies born without a brain. Yes, if there were no other human beings in the world other than this one brainless baby, maybe I would keep the brainless baby around to help comfort me by reminding me of the lost human species. However, in fact there are lots of other human beings, most of whom have brains, so in reality there's no need to keep brainless babies around as pets.
Natalia also seems to be unaware of what a brain is. Brainless babies do not experience pain or anguish. (Nor do they experience pleasure.) Without a brain, 'you' have no experiences of any kind, no beliefs, no desires, and you don't care about anything to any degree. It's just a body lying in a hospital bed. There's no such thing as being insensitive to such a thing, any more than you can be insensitive to a rock.
If it's true that every object, including pebbles on the beach, has something to teach, then I'd rather learn from the rocks, which you don't have to expend thousands of dollars in medical bills to support.
I don't know about the previous editions of this book, but the present edition is really not biased, unless in the sense of being biased towards rationality and quality. In the case of issues where there is significant debate in moral philosophy, there are articles explaining both sides (e.g., abortion). In some cases, there's only one article (e.g., on homosexuality), but these are the issues where there is almost no disagreement in the field, and you'd have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, admitting really low-quality pieces, if you insisted on having an opposing article.
