Essay of Sia

Answer guide:

You can refer to the following materials: Task 1 is about decisions and Chapter 2 (pages 7-28) should help you think about decision making. In

chapter 4, pages 48-9 add some further arguments related to problems in decision-making. Chapter 11 (pages 170-190) should help you think about task 1 but also about task 3.

This task Is all about decisions. For explame, if someone denies getting 1bn , we cannot use this as a laudable/culpable [decision] coz the denial would be a kind of utterance for task 2, not a decision. Moreover, Whether you are attributing praise or blame, you need to say what good or harm is done

You should identify two laudable decisions (choose the most obvious ones )

identify one non-culpabele desicion (choose the most obvious one)

Non-culpable decisions (NCD) are those we cannot blame, because they may do some good but we cannot unambiguously praise them either, because many

of them are rearguard attempts to remedy faulty decisions.

When you explain the good that is done by a decision that some people might praise, you can allow for the fact that from different perspectives,

the same decision can be both good and bad. Then you could re-identify the decision as culpable and explain the harm that is done by a decision

that other people might blame. Try not to let political arguments take up too much space.

identify three culpable decisions (rank with mincul/midcul/maxcul)

explain why one is the first-worst, another is the third-worst while, in between, another is less bad than the first but worse than the third.