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Situation Ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - how often do people have to make life & death decisions on which SE seems to be based?
      - "it is much easier to agree that extraordinary situations need extraordinary measures to think that there are no laws for ordinary life"
    - - we need laws for protection etc, & how will people know exactly when it is 'the most loving thing' to abandon them? a circumstance to 1 may not be to another
    - - we can be swayed by emotion or fear & persuade ourselves that we are doing the most loving thing when really we are doing the thing that suits ourselves the most
    - - he's making the point that SE isn't designed for everyday use its based on extreme, rare, unlikely situations & that we shouldn't abandon all moral laws of everyday life for he sake of a rare extraordinary situation - Instead we should maintain laws for ordinary life & have extraordinary measures for extraordinary situations
    - - law focuses on public morality - what people do in public that could affect society e.g. drunk driving
      - private morality - what we do in private that arguable doesn't affect wider society e.g drunk at home
      - Liberal thinkers think the state should have no say what we do in private - e.g. homosexuality is a self-regarding action not detrimental to society & should be allowed & legal
      - Barclay is a conservative Christian tinker - believes there is no private sphere & what we do in private does affect society
      - whilst Fletcher argues that moral responsibility can only be if we are completely free Barclay argues that no one is ever completely free
        
        we are determined by society, our immediate environment, our heredity & any previous decisions - therefore there's a tension between freedom & law
- - - - love is law - boss principle
  - - - in line with Robinson's man come of age theory