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Personal Values and Beliefs
My personal values and beliefs are based on kindness and compassion. There is a salutary spiritual component of those values and beliefs as well. However, I truly value life in all of its myriad forms. This valuation is increased when it comes to sentient life. I believe that it is best to live in accordance with life and one's surroundings, as opposed to trying to dictate those surroundings and shape them to one's own benefit. This latter stance is that which is largely propagated via Western culture. However, I believe that the values of kindness and compassion are best actuated by living in accordance with one's surroundings, which is manifested daily in the interactions that one has with other forms of life. The most eminent social issues related to these beliefs involve cost. Specifically, the Affordable Care Act has created a situation in which the cost of health care is exorbitant, with premiums in most instances two or three times higher prior to this legislation. Oftentimes in my own personal experience, the providers are issuing substandard quality of care or quality of healthcare packages for these extravagant rates. I cannot afford healthcare insurance due to these factors -- that premiums are ridiculously high and the quality of service has egregiously declined. Ethically, this situation is unacceptable. Moreover, I believe that utilitarianism (which justifies ethical behavior by that which achieves the greatest good for the most people) (Stanford, 2009) can support my stance about these high costs. The justification is typically that by ensuring people that were formally unable to get insurance or who could not afford insurance because it would be too high due to pre-existing health conditions, everyone's premiums would have to go up. There is a greater utility in the healthcare system prior to the Affordable Care Act. After the legislation, everyone has exorbitant premiums. Prior to the legislation, only a relatively small amount of the population had steep premiums. The greater good is achieved with the healthcare climate prior to the Affordable Care Act. Ideally, healthcare should be free or of low…
The spiritual aspect of this fledgling belief system is predicated on the notion that there is a universal creator who has engendered existence in a state of harmony. Kindness and compassion are the fundamental values that affect my treatment of others because I believe that the aforementioned spiritual force has intended its creation -- life itself -- to function in harmony. Therefore, I strive to be understanding and to consider the viewpoints of others along with those of myself. Perhaps the most succinct way to summarize my values and beliefs is to reference Immanuel Kant. Kant's philosophy was popularized by his notion of the categorical imperative -- the fact that some moral obligations are so complete that they must be followed (CSUS, 2016). The categorical imperative of the golden rule ("do unto others as you would have done unto you") summarizes my approach of kindness and compassion to others.
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Borland, T. Speidel, C. (2015). Understanding the Affordable Care Act and its impacts on low-income taxpayers. Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure. 17(3), 51-57.
CSUS. (2016). Kantian ethics. http://www.csus.edu / Retrieved from http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/Kantian%20Ethics.htm
Lamp. (2016). Cubans tell Obama: "Healthcare is a right." Lamp. 76(4), 8.
Stanford Encyclopedia. The history of utilitarianism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 27. March 2009. Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/utilitarianism-history/
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