The case that I will be covering for the ethics bowl concerns the soylent hunger case. Around 3 billion or half the world’s population being poor and a third of its people so impoverished they fight starvation every single day. Additionally, in the near next couple decades the population of the world should increase by around 2 billion. This massive increase in population should make starvation issues larger than ever, so a solution has been developed. This solution involves a drink supplement, called Soylent. This drink could be mass manufactured and distributed to people in need. A software engineer in search of a substitute for expensive whole foods developed Soylent. This thick beige drink is supposed to provide one with all the essential nutrients they need to survive.…show more content… Kant believed that there was a supreme principle of morality, and he referred to it as The Categorical Imperative. The “CI” determines what our moral duties are. An imperative is a command, furthermore they come either hypothetically or categorically. The hypothetical imperatives command conditionally while the categorical imperatives are unconditional. The connection between morality and categorical imperatives is that morality must be based on the categorical imperative because morality is such that you are commanded by it, and is such that you cannot opt out of it or claim that it does not apply to you. One of the categorical imperatives formulations is The Formula of Universal Law: “act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law [of nature].” More accurately, it commands that every maxim (a rule or principle) you act on must be such that you are willing to make it the case that everyone always acts on that maxim when in a similar
