{"id":6138,"date":"2021-03-03T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:32:59","slug":"the-art-of-argument-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/03\/the-art-of-argument-response\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Argument Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the discussion on page 354 about flu shots in reference to instrumental and inherent value was a helpful way to think about consequential moral arguments, especially during a time of intense debate regarding COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Instrumental value is defined as something one values in order to receive something else they value more. Inherent values are defined as things that are valued on their own. In reading this section, I kept thinking about opportunity costs, and how in most things that we have a choice, we will pick the thing that will give us the lowest opportunity cost.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to think that something that you do not want to do on its own, like getting a flu shot or the COVID-19 vaccination because of the potential pain and displeasure or chance of ineffectiveness, is not valuable. However, as we know, the value of not getting the flu or not getting COVID-19 outweighs the consequence of enduring the pain of the initial vaccination. Furthermore, things that we want to do do not always come with pleasure, or that pleasure varies among each person. I think addressing flu shots and COVID-19 vaccine distribution in these ways to the public, as consequences that are inherently morally important rather than in terms of instrumental value, would help increase the number of people willing to receive the vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the discussion on page 354 about flu shots in reference to instrumental and inherent value was a helpful way to think about consequential moral arguments, especially during a time of intense debate regarding COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Instrumental value is defined as something one values in order to receive something else they value more. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}