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In my lecture video this week, I discussed how alternatives to incarceration/prison are becoming more accepted among political “conservatives” as well as political “liberals,” but for different reasons. Discuss these different reasons.  Do these different reasons suggest that conservatives and liberals are unlikely to be able to join together to support prison alternatives? Why or why not? *** Remember, submitting any part of this Learning Evaluation created using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, etc., or AI-enhanced writing/translation platforms like Grammarly, QuillBot, DeepL, and Google Translate violates my Academic Integrity policy (see Syllabus). Like other forms of plagiarism, it is academic misrepresentation/fraud because you are submitting work created by someone or something else as your own.

People tend to derive more happiness from products, because they can keep them indefinitely.

Many services cannot be seen, touched, or felt. Therefore, they’re:

Martin Golding, a utiltiarian, supports the deterrence theory of punishment.

Utilitarianism is a backward-looking theory that looks at past promises and past obligations.

Fried defines the lawyer as a client’s special friend whereby the lawyer does the morally right thing (and not just the legally permissible thing) in advancing the client’s interests over the best interests of the community.

The Sam and Doris case was expected to be a case of “my word agsinst yours.”

According to Charles Fried, utilitarian reasoning is the best and only way to justify a lawyer’s special friendship with his or her clients.

Deontological ethics is an ethical theory opposed or contrasted to duty ethics.

There are two kinds of virtue for Aristotle: primary and secondary virtues.