Moral Studies Tutorial

Based on our topic that we had presented, that is piracy, one of the ethical values that we can relate on it is egoism. According the lecture slide retrieved from Curtin Homework Folder, egoism is a teleological theory of ethics that sets as its goal the benefit, pleasure, or greatest good of oneself alone. Many people nowadays prefer to buy pirated products such as pirated CDs, pirated DVDs, pirated clothes, watches and many more.

This is definitely not a pirated product!

This is because compared to the genuine product, the prices for pirated products are much cheaper and yet we can get the same build and quality for some cases. In egoism, it is said that every decision that one person made will based on his or her self interest. For example, people who choose to purchase pirated software surely got an idea in their mind: “I can get this software that I want cheap yet same as the genuine product, why not?” From this we can see that people opt for pirated goods are motivated by their self interest that is not to spend too much money just to buy software while they can use the money of buying A genuine software to buy MANY pirated software.