The Fable Of Education As A Commodity

Mackie (1977) stated egoist started with his own principle, he then must think about the real end of the reason and considered about universal happiness or pleasure. According to Singer (1991)ethical subjectivism is when people making the moral judgments, it is not concerning with good or bad, but merely expressing individual's own desire and feeling.

Deidre worked as a Director in a volunteer agency, the volunteers were increased in number due to the high unemployment, the educated individual wishes to work as volunteer so as to improve her employment prospect. From the ethical perspective, the egoism implies to the individual who thought helping people could lead to her own benefit. According to Bagnall (2004), education is a product used by the individual, the aim of volunteering to teach is to achieve personal gain. The organization conducted serious checking through volunteers' previous working organization, referees and interviews, this way, they could hire the best volunteers to do the jobs. The good reputation of the organization could lead to more public contribution of funds and surplus made through training courses. The organization can be considered as self-interest because it did not care about the volunteers but merely to satisfy its' own needs. Singer (1991) claimed excessive egoism but not enough altruism could lead to social problems; such as, the personal beneficial from volunteering has led to more voluntary placements but less care about the volunteers prospect of getting paid employments.

"The interested in volunteering job due to the large number of people unemployed during that time." This statement does not imply whether volunteering is good or bad. Brink (1989) suggested subjectivism is the object of people's desire. The educated volunteers have desired of helping other by reaching out to those who need to learn the knowledge of certain professions. In return, the organization can receive funds from the public and joining in to do the training courses. The public prefers the organization that has good reputation and has high quality volunteers. Subjectivism has no moral involved, only the desires of the people, their interests and feelings. Volunteers are interested in building strong Curriculum Vitae, so, more employers will be looking for them and more chances of getting desirable jobs. According to Brink (1989) subjectivism is involved in the psychological state of a person; the desire

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