GLOSSARY.

1. Injustice = Treatment between an often authority-holding performer and a less powerful recipient which results in a short or long-term outcome considered negative or unfair by the recipient.

2. Blame = Is responsible for something bad happening.

3. Peruse = To read through with thoroughness.

4. Hazardous = Full of risk.

5. Lavished = Expended.

6. Epicurean = Having luxurious tastes.

7. Monopoly = An exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government.

8. Oppressive = Causing discomfort by being excessive.

9. Greatest Happiness Principle = No one’s person’s happiness is greater than another’s, and everyone should work towards the happiness of the greatest number of people or for society as a whole, focusing on a society that decreases the chances of pain for everyone equally.

10. Happiness = Not pain or wellbeing (Mill).

11. Possesses = To have as belonging to one.

12. Assumption = Something taken for granted.

 13. Utilitarianism = School of thought which believes that an action is made moral by using its consequence, and that human nature is derived from the looking for long-term pleasure. 

14. Good will = The only thing without qualification.

15. Act Utilitarian = The rightness & wrongness of each action depends directly on whether it fits the utilitarian principle. 

16. J.S. Mill = Utilitarian philosopher who emphasized the importance of maximizing happiness and higher pleasures.

17. Aberrant = Something or someone that is considered abnormal, odd, or uncommon.

18. Premises = the claims given as reasons for thinking the conclusion of the argument is true are called the premises of the arguments.

19. Tyranny =  A person who believes they are above law and rule to their own desire.

20. Blunder =  A stupid mistake.

21. Non-consequentialism =  Actions are wrong in themselves, regardless of any outcome 

22. Consequentialism = The rightness of actions depends on their consequence 

23. Exploitation =  treating someone or something unfairly to benefit from it.

24. Market-Inalienability = Term used to refer to what kinds of things should and should not be traded in markets.

25. Inevitably = as is certain to happen.

26. Immigration = the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

27. Kant = 18th-century Enlightenment philosopher who emphasized the importance of duty-motivated intention.

28. Ethical Relativism = the belief that nothing is objectively right or wrong.

29. Moral Alienation = To be removed from feelings or emotions.

30. Rule Utilitarianism =  An indirect theory, since the rightness or wrongness of an act depends on a set of rules.

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