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National Drug Control War On Drugs
1,889 wordsShould Drugs Be Legalized In America? As the nation's drug problem persists, issues continue to haunt communities. The question is will legalizing drugs really help or will legalization make problems increase in our society? If drugs remain illegal, a number of complications that could appear as a result of legalization will never occur. Keeping drugs illegal poses a lesser problem than legalization. Drugs should not be legalized not only because legalization is bad for the country but also beca...
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Morally Justified Greatest Happiness
1,084 words... virtue of being a person the doctor had rights, dignity, and intrinsic moral worth, as well as value. Hence, killing the doctor would be the wrong thing to do and through Kant that action is not morally justified, since the moral law demands that we treat others as ends in themselves, and never as mere means to other ends. In other words, you should always treat other rational beings (persons) as having absolute moral worth, or as the ultimate ends of action. This I will call the principle o...
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical
1,613 wordsAlbert Carr stated that legality and profits are the only standard that people in business should follow. In Carrs article Is business bluffing ethical? he compared and found the rules of business to be similar with the rules of poker. In a game of poker, bluffing is a central part of the game and this is known and accepted by all the players. So bluffing in poker is not considered morally wrong. If in business everyone understands that bluffing is okay, should we still consider bluffing immoral...
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Moment Of Conception Morally Justified
1,601 wordsAbortion is an extremely complex and highly debated public issue that has consumed much of the American social and political arena in the late twentieth century. People on both sides of the debate present strong arguments that establish valid points. Society clearly states that child abuse and the murder of one's child is illegal, but does allow abortion. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, the fine line that exists between abortion and murder will be discussed and debated for decades to...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
1,902 wordsIn America today many arguments are centered on the right to choose: the right for women to have an abortion, the right for gays to be allowed to raise children or be legally married, and the right to physician-assisted suicide. These arguments all have something to do with the individual having the right to make this choice or if society should be able to decide for them, thus removing this choice. Euthanasia is a choice everyone should have, but like all rights, it should not be taken advantag...
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Passive Euthanasia Lethal Injection
1,057 words... aptness to which their moral worth entitles them (Sullivan, 220). The capacity to exercise our rationality and reason morally is what makes human existence meaningful. Individuals suffering from unbearable pain are still persons in the moral sense because they have the capacity to distinguish right from wrong, but in every other respect, they are deprived of the things that make their life desirable. They no longer have the ability to use their rationality and grow as individuals; instead, t...
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Rule Utilitarianism Capital Punishment
629 wordsThe debate over capital punishment has been continous for many years now. It is a very controversial issue that revolves around several theories of punishment and social justice such as utilitarianism, retribution, and the right to live. These arguments come from different types of schools and reasoning, but they can all be evaluated within a utilitarian view. It views society as one organism. Its goal is to improve the state of society for all citizens in the future. Utilitarianism does not vie...
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Consequential Ist Categorical Imperative
1,698 wordsEthics, broadly conceived, is concerned with questions about value, how we should live, and what we should do. Normative ethics is concerned with developing general theories in response to these kinds of questions. Consequentialist's, contract arians, virtue ethicist's, Kantians, and still others all develop different theories. But these theorists understand the subject matter itself differently, stress different questions, and offer different answers. These differences themselves then become th...
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Ethical Theory Intrinsic Value
1,454 words[Course Title] Introduction to Philosophy Ethics Ethics or morality poses questions about how we ought to act and how we should live. It asks, "According to what standards are these actions right or wrong?" It asks, "What character traits (like honesty, compassion, fairness) are necessary to live a truly human life?" It also asks, "What concerns or groups do we usually minimize or ignore? And why might that be?" Admitting our blindness is the beginning of vision. In general, as well as in academ...
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Sense Of Duty Kant
3,239 words? The only acceptable motive for a moral action is that it should be done as a sense of moral duty. ? Is this a justifiable claim? Before it is possible to analyse whether the statement, ? The only acceptable motive for a moral action is that it should be done as a sense of moral duty, ? is a justifiable claim we must consider what ones moral duty is and if is it dependant or independent on the consequence of its action? For example we could state ones moral duty is never to lie. It is popularly...
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Cost Benefit Analysis Decision Making Process
1,874 wordsIs cost-benefit analysis a morally defensible technique for making decisions in business? Questions around the use of cost-benefit analysis as a tool in the decision making process in business have become even more relevant in the past decade with the increase in cost cutting and productivity enhancing pressures brought on by increased global competition. If cost-benefit analysis is to be used in this way, then it is advisable to thoroughly understand its limitations and recognize the implicatio...
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Morally Justified Natural Rights
1,531 wordsDo people have some rights just by being human? This question is concerned with whether or not it is possible for natural rights to exist. Natural rights are rights which we have naturally as humans, in other words rights which we inherently have, just by being human. A large problem with answering this question is that of defining the term rights, a question to which the answer has been very elusive throughout the history of political analysis. The following investigation into the possibility o...
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Cost Benefit Analysis United States Government
1,606 wordsMorality depends on the ability of an individual to choose between good and evil, thus, entailing freedom of the will and the moral responsibility of the individual for his actions. It is obvious this is so for the individual, but what about groups and governments? Do they have the ability to choose between good and evil, do they have free will and therefore are they subject to the same paradigms of morality as the individual or does an autonomous morality apply. What if we relate this concept o...
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Huckleberry Finn Morally Correct
517 wordsHuckleberry Finn All right, then, Ill go to hell. Six simple words; yet they have a very deep and complex meaning. The above quote was taken from Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and it illustrates how modern man copes with what Twain termed the inescapable dilemma of Democracy. In the novel, Huck is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to return Jim, the runaway slave, back to Jims owner. He faced with the decision that has plagued man for ages: choosing what is morally right, even though it is fo...
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Soup Kitchens Morally Acceptable
2,078 wordsIs Moral Egoism Correct? Moral Egoism states that one never does wrong if one does whats in ones own self-interest; its always morally acceptable to just look out for number one (Barcalow, 295). I feel that I should do what is in my own self-interest for the most part, but not for everything, thus making moral egoism incorrect. When many people take a look at the definition of moral egoism, they may first think it is correct. People say, of course I am going to do something if it benefits me. Th...
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Based On Race Forms Of Racism
1,379 wordsAppiah addresses the issues of racialism, intrinsic racism, and extrinsic racism in his article entitled RACISMS. However, after analyzing Appiah? s views on racism and its different forms, his views on the theoretical validity of racialism and extrinsic racism are seriously doubted. Appiah defines racialism as? the view that there are essential characteristics that allow us to classify people into distinct races, each of which shares certain traits and tendencies? . On this topic, Appiah thinks...
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Machiavelli Morally Good
1,197 wordsThe Right Thing To Do, Is not Always The Right Thing To Do Some say that if one completes his / her studies at the University level without analyzing and understanding Machiavelli? s work and theories, then that person has not fully utilized the? college experience. ? Machiavelli, by some, is said to be one of the greatest theorists and philosophers of all time. Most critics argue, ? ? that he (Machiavelli) is cynical- that he thinks the worst of people rather than the best of them. ? It is very...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Don T Understand
3,458 wordsASSISTED SUICE AND EUTHANASIA Assisted Suicide? the act or practice of helping in taking the life of one who willfully wants to die. Just by definition alone it becomes painfully obvious; this is going to be a controversial subject. A term that goes hand and hand with assisted suicide, one in which I will be discussing at great length is Euthanasia. That is the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relat...
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Difference Between Right And Wrong Consequential Ist
1,378 wordsPraise and Blame in World DIn World D, a world in which people recognize that they do not have free will, it is still possible to maintain a system of praise and blame. The implicit assumption is that praise and blame effect actions such that a person praised for an action is more likely to repeat traction while a person blamed for an action is less likely to commit these action again. Such a system, although possible, would look different from the system which exists in the actual world because...
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Moral Obligation Brain Activity
1,775 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Animal rights is a catchphrase akin to human rights. It involves, however, a few pitfalls. First, animals exist only as a concept. Otherwise, they are cuddly cats, curly dogs, cute monkeys. A rat and a puppy are both animals but our emotional reaction to them is so different that we cannot really lump them together. Moreover: what rights are we talking about? The right to life? The right to be free of pain? The right to ...
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