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Alright so in class this past week we ended up talking a lot about politics and ethics and one analogy after another in an unending discussion of american consumerism. But one thing that really caught my attention was when we were talking about ford and how when the car would explode, it cost more to replace the defective parts than the cost of human life. They actually figured out the cost of a human life. Now that right there says a little bit to my understading of ethics, becuase people are people. People are valuable. People do not have a set worth. Also, some, like Raskolnikov, would say that there are human lives which have more with than others and it is the job of those who are consious of this to get rid of the people that, in their extermination, will have the greatest positive benefit to society. So all this really boils down to the point i am making. In these senses, human life has become a commodity. And that is one of the precise things that Marx was trying to prevent as a result of capitalism. When human life is made a commodity to become efficient, then the ethical values really need to be looked at. And i think that part of the role of Aesthetics on ethics is to make some kind of scale to us which makes us compartmentalize and judge these ethics.

So my question right now is, can an individuals set of ethics be changed by aesthetics?