Moral responsibility and critical thinking is related to free will for example when we argue that a man is responsible for his or her actions then we mean that he acted freely because he or she knew what he or she was doing. Unlike other animals, human beings are held responsible or accountable for their actions because logically human acts proceed from critical thinking to freedom. Philosophers of all time argue that, every sane human being is morally responsible and the decisions he/she makes deserve punishment, reward, blame or praise of his/her actions as per his/her ethical obligations (Regan, 2004).
Moral Responsibility
In our scenario of Blood Money where one of the grisly and lucrative international black market of buying and selling of human organs extracted from bodies of Prisoners from China we raise the question, what is the moral responsibility of all participants in this business? In the realm of morality, human beings are responsible for every act they make in their daily activities, thus in our scenario of Blood Money doctors, patients and those in authority are morally responsible in their actions. It is common knowledge that, mental illness, hypnosis, bad habits, and violence influence our free will and critical thinking, thus erasing our moral responsibility (Carroll, 2009). From an ethical perspective, human beings have a moral responsibility of taking care of another person's life, and the actions of taking away another person's life are morally wrong, and it is punishable. Although human beings have a free will, one does not necessarily have a freedom of engaging in illegal business activities and the chilling executions of prisoners in china portrays the extent to which those in authority are taking human life for granted. Indeed the prisoners do not sign a consent form; thus there is a need for those in authority to be punished accordingly