PHI 302 Week 4 Discussion 2

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Week 4 Discussion Question 2

Read the following scenarios and and respond: 

·         Case 1: Two Teenagers Living Together

Two college students, Tom, 19, and Barbara, 18, have decided to live together both for sexual reasons and because they enjoy each other's company. Barbara intends to take birth control pills, they intend to share expenses, and they have an agreement to be honest with and faithful to each other throughout the entire relationship. They also have agreed that if either one of them wants to break off the relationship, he or she has only to say so and the relationship will end with no recriminations. 

·         Case 2: Two Unmarried Seniors Living Together

Sarah and Ben, both in their seventies and widowed, have fallen in love and feel a strong need for each others' companionship. Because Sarah would lose her social security pension if she remarried, they have moved into an apartment together without getting married and are enjoying a full sex life. Their grown children are very upset by this and constantly tell Sarah and Ben how they feel about their domestic arrangement. Some of the children even refuse to call or visit them because they are living together. Despite this situation, Ben and Sarah seem to be happy.

·         Do you think the action taken in each case was moral, why or why not? 

·         Is there a relevant moral difference between the cases? If so, what is it? 

·         If not, why don’t the differences of circumstance matter?