According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse, 1,700 college students die each year from alcohol- related injuries. In addition, members of fraternities and sororities are at the highest risk of excess drinking, intoxication is considered to be an acceptable aspect of Greek life (Boss 277). Binge drinking among college students is directly linked to intentional violence, as well as many other health risks. Students who do not engage in binge drinking, report issues caused by student that do. This brings the question up, should binge drinking among college students be considered a disease, which is the result from ones culture or beliefs or is it more of an individual moral issue? Throughout this paper, I’m going to take an ethical approach to my analysis on who, if anyone should be held morally responsible for the death of Benjamin Wynne.
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I’m going to take a rather rational ethical approach, I find that it is important to bring up what Ayn Rand elaborated on when she was referring to Rational Ethical Egoism in which “humans are rational and fundamentally solitary individuals each pursuing his or her own personal self- interests (Rand 20). This is important in understanding the basis of trying to understand why people do what they do. Benjamin as well as the other brothers of the fraternity took it upon themselves to purse partying out of their own self- interest. I want to refer back to my point I made earlier in this paper in regards to the two types of models, one being the disease model of addiction and the other being the moral model of addiction. After underlying each of the aspects to each of the models, I’ve come to the conclusion that the disease model of addiction cannot be used, or in play for understanding if someone should be held morally