The Myth Of The Prison Kings - 1038 Words

Sabrina Peralta Ethics in Contemporary Society Research Draft The Myth of the Prison Kings Have you ever wondered how many death row inmates there are just in California? 746. That is how inmates are currently waiting to be executed. Too many prisoners are being left behind death row for years, leaving us with money out of our pockets. Using Ethical Egoism and Utilitarianism will help us with this problem by keeping more money in our pockets, having less criminals locked up on death row, and by having a better living environment for our society. While all these inmates are waiting to be executed, we are paying for their stay in prison. Does that seem right to you? These people are waiting to get the lethal injection, yet we have to pay†¦show more content†¦Ethical Egoism is about promoting one’s own good; to look out for one’s own long term self-interest. Isn’t promoting the life sentence than death sentence promoting greater goodness for our tax payers? I would say so. Now even though Ethical Egoism is about your own self-interest; it can als o help out others self-interest too. Epically in this type of situation where we are all getting effected by it. Ethical Egoism is a certain type of action or motivation, and minimizes another type of motivation. This is where we need to minimize the situation on keeping these death row inmates on death row and maximizes the situation where we should acknowledge that these inmates are going to be locked up for a very long time before they see death. We also need to realize that these inmates are getting better well fed than our homeless people out on the streets. None of this can make sense. These people on death row are criminals. They did something horrible to get themselves in there. Why are we taking care of them? Of course they are in chains all day, but they have a bed and a toilet. They can even take showers. Why can we do that for our homeless? Instead of wasting our tax paying money on the death row inmates, can we just waste it on our neighborhood homeless people that we see about everyday out on the streets? According to Scott Keyes from the Bill Moyers Company, it costs $21,000 more to