“Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in the fall of 2011.Write a 6-8 page paper in which...

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“Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in the fall of 2011.

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

Discuss the moral and economic implications involved in the movement.
Analyze each of the implications identified above against the utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to determine which theory best applies to the movement. Support your position with examples and evidence.
Determine who is responsible for income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. In your analysis, make sure to include if this is something that happened suddenly or if it built up over time. Explain your rationale.
Suggest an equitable outcome from the movement that would be appropriate for our capitalistic society.
Predict whether the movement will continue, fad away, or turn into something else. Provide a rationale with your response.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

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Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

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Moral and Economic Implications of Occupy Wall Street Movement 
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Occupy Wall Street: An Introduction 
 Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the movement that has loose coalition of the ongoing 
peaceful movements or protest happening in the cities across United States. This movement 
began through demonstration in the streets’ of New York financial districts. The major 
objective of the protest was issues related to economic justice, corruption within the financial 
system, the way government is handling global financial crisis, role of the corporate money in 
U.S. political system, and wealth disparity.  
This movement is regarded as self identified, leaderless movement showing their 
protest but this movement lacked the official sets of the demands and gained support from the 
participants who likes to bring attention towards social, political, environmental, and 
economic issues.  
Moral and Economic Implication of the Movement 
 According to this movement, it is unethical and unfair to destroy world and to destroy 
the health as well as the hopes of others. The OWS movement has resulted in several moral 
and economic implications. An economic system is the system which forces the majority of 
people to face the impact of the recklessness of some powerful profiteers, for assuming the 
burden of the other’s privilege and also to pay real cost of the destructive industries within 
the currency of the health as well as hope of the children which is so immoral or unethical. 
Therefore, every person whether to what extent they are rich as well as every system has the 
responsibility towards having honor affirmation obligation for the justice as well as 
compassion for well-being of both present and future generations. However, the economic 
impact of the movement is difficult to know in terms that how the movement has affected the 
local business or have affected the revenue from the trade. But the cost that is incurred by the
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police was readily available in terms of the cost that was incurred on patrolling, clearing 
protestors, etc. For instance, the taxpayers have to pay at least $13 million for the police 
overtime and for other municipal taxes (Francis, 2011).  
On political side, this protest has very minimal impact on the political front as no 
political party came forward to align themselves with this movement. But the politicians 
believe that this movement will have impact on the presidential election in the year 2012.  
 Moreover, the moral implication of the OWS can be studied on the basis of ethical 
theories. Ethics is referred to the application of ethics i.e. moral behavior. It can also be said 
that ethics is related to person’s own value and judgments about what is right and what is 
wrong. In other words, it is also defined as study of individual’s collective moral awareness, 
judgments character and conduct. The most popular ethical theory includes utilitarian, 
Kantian and Virtue approach to ethics.  
According to utilitarianism approach to ethics, the judgment about the act or behavior 
is ethical or not is based on the fact that the act must foster maximum good to maximum 
numbers of stakeholders including customers, self-interest, and general public.  
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