Outbreak

Below is a link to the movie “Outbreak”. Please know that this movie does have strong language and has content that could be sensitive to children. You need to watch a good deal of this movie in order to answer the assignment as well as the Discussion question for this week.

Summary:

“Colonel Dr. Sam Daniels has just divorced his wife Robby Keough, who works at the CDC. Out of the blue, he is assigned by his superior General Billy Ford to investigate a lethal disease in an African village with his crew formed by the scientist Casey Schuler and Major Dr. Salt. They are impressed by the disease and Colonel Daniels reports to General Ford his findings afraid of contamination in the USA. However General Ford tells that the disease kills so fast that would never reach their country. However, an African smuggled monkey carrier of the disease is brought to USA and the customs employee Jimbo Scott unsuccessfully tries to sell the animal. He releases the monkey in the woods and spreads the disease in the beginning of an outbreak in a small town in California. Now Colonel Daniels, his ex-wife and their teams must fight the invisible enemy while Colonel Daniels discovers dark secrets from his superior General Donald McClintock.”

For this assignment and subsequent discussion this week – please watch the movie “Outbreak”. Watch from the beginning to 75 minutes in and again from 1:13:50 – 1:19. (Feel free to watch all of it – but for the purposes of the assignment, you will be able to answer the applicable questions from that part.)

This week we talked about the concepts of deontological, utilitarianism and virtue based ethics.

• For each specific groups from the movie below, share which of the three major areas within normative ethics (utilitarian, deontological, and virtue) you think they most likely embody and be specific why
• What is the ethical perspective of the viral researchers/doctors?
• What is the ethical perspective of the people of the town?
• What is the ethical perspective of the military?
• What is the ethical perspective of the individual in the boardroom before bringing concerns to the President, (around 69:37) when they talk about the standards of the Constitution and the right of Americans to have life, liberty, or property with due process?
• What about the Military’s personnel at the end of the movie who make the decision about bombing the town? (1:13:50 – 1:19)

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