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Rape Or Incest Pro Lifers
1,082 wordsMany people believe that abortion is a moral issue, but it is also a constitutional issue. It is a woman's right to choose what she does with her body, and it should not be altered or influenced by anyone else. Abortion has joined the race and war as one of the most controversial issues in the world today. There are many points of view toward abortion, but two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life." Because I feel the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mother and the state o...
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Should Rich People Help The Poor
599 wordsAs we enter the millennium, the gap between rich and poor has never been wider. While some people have more money than it is possible to spend in a lifetime, no matter how lavishly they might make purchases; others are not able to provide even for their most basic needs. On all the continents of the world, people starve to death for lack of food; freeze death for lack of shelter, die of diseases that could be prevented. The situation raises the issue of whether the affluent people of the world h...
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Hundreds Of Years Ago Ultimate Goal
1,006 wordsPrior to a look at Aristotle's ethics, I feel it is important to look at the man and his background. Aristotle, an Ionian, was born in Stagira, a Greek town on the northwest shores of the Aegean Sea in 384 B. C. At the age of eighteen he entered Plato's school called the Academy, staying there for nearly twenty years. Plato was quick to realize Aristotle's abilities and called him the Academy's "brightest and most learned student." While there he wrote "popular writings" for general discussion o...
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Human Cloning March 2000
998 words... ff. How could the rest of us genetically challenged people hope to even land a job? Suppose you graduate with a degree in mathematics, hoping to fulfill your dream of becoming a teacher, only to learn that the schools and colleges are staffed with Einstein clones that possess knowledge far superior to yours. Their knowledge would be born from an implanted genetic inclination whereas yours would come only from hard work. You need not be an Einstein, or an Einstein clone, to identify the loser...
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Quality Of Life Sanctity Of Life
990 wordsBIRT: The Individual ought to Value the Sanctity of Life above the Quality of Life Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. It is because I so strongly concur with this quote by Joseph Throw, that I compelled to affirm todays resolution; be it resolved that the individual ought to value the sanctity of life above the quality of life. Before moving on, I would like to define a few key terms that clearly pertain to the r...
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Traditions No Rocks Candid And Impartial Life
693 wordsMelville concerns himself with making a study of the defects of characters. In Moby Dick, each character has his own defect Starbuck is too conservative; he lacks the forthrightness to execute his proper and well-developed moral principles. Study is too indifferent to what makes itself plain to him as evil. Flask lacks any moral sense and feeds on the excitements life has to offer. Billy Budd centers even more clearly on the distinctive ways in which defects spoil characters as they act in the w...
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Characters In The Story Makes The Reader
1,515 wordsJacob the Liar is an interesting story about ordinary people and their experiences in a Jewish ghetto in Poland during WWII. The Jews are forced by the Nazis to live in the ghetto under very strict rules. Jacob is a restaurant owner who gives hope to the Jewish people in the Nazi occupied Jewish ghetto by spreading rumors of impending liberation by the Soviet army. The narrator is a third party person that is telling stories he has heard from other sources. His recounts of the events are very de...
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A Analysis Of The Dream Ridiculous Man
800 wordsDostoyevsky's ridiculous man is one who is more morally aware than the rest of his society. He is taken for a madman for having foolish ideas, but in actuality, has a higher comprehension of life that his society does not understand. The story shows a basic struggle between logic and mans natural instinct toward the whimsical. Positivism, or logical reasoning, is regarded negatively in this story, a common feature in many of Dostoyevsky's literature. Dostoyevsky opposes the popular usage of posi...
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Computer Ethics Computer Science
851 wordsThe purpose of this article is to state the issues in computer ethics and the integration of these into the Information Technology curriculum. This article states the facts in an unbiased manner. It brings up points from both sides; the advocation of the ethics course and the probability that many of these issues wont even be relevant to your job. A systems analyst becomes aware of illegal activity- fraud, money laundering, tax evasion- at his company. After a late night of work, the analyst bre...
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Morals And Values Raising Children
1,909 wordsThe issue of morals and values being taught to our children is one of the most pressing problems in our society today. The responsibility of raising children with a strong moral base has been lost in the chaos of the modern world. With an increase in single parenting and more homes where both parents are employed full-time, the role of parents in their children's lives has drastically changed. Many parents are no longer involved in raising their children, which leaves the responsibility of provi...
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Peace In The Family Maximize The Good Explains
481 wordsJohn Stuart Mill explains that all action is for the sake of some end, and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. When describing the Greatest Happiness Principle, Mill explains that it is the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals utility holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
1,120 wordsLeave the people free to do as they please (Stephen Douglas as cited in Safire, 261). This sentiment would seem to apply to the argument in favor of the death penalty, or capital punishment. In our democratic system, we must listen to the people. And on the critical issue of capital punishment, the people of the United States agree it must be used (Ogloffs, 2). The following discusses why the American people agree with our present system. Capital punishment is necessary because it deters crime. ...
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Police Officers Police Brutality
496 wordsThe Police Coercion Police Coercion The police exist to protect the public from harm, abuse, murder and infringement of personal rights. They are here to sustain those persons who have committed a crime against the laws of the land. Basically, the duty as a police officer is to protect the good from the bad. Ironically, however, in many cases this is not true; sometimes the police will play the role of the bad man. In one recent case, police officers were convicted of over-excessive use of force...
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Population Growth Population Control
1,087 wordsThe Population Control Population Control The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. -Garrett Hardin The prediction that spawned a generation of alarmist has now in turned on its head. But the prospect of an emptier planet is creating its own set of problems. -Ben J Wittenberg The realization of the worlds population crisis is creating new and disturbing ideas by many people to solve our over population problem. Many ideas are being condone...
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Casper Goodwood Newfound Freedom Isabel
551 wordsPortrait of a Lady Isabel Archer doesnt go away with Casper Goodwood because it would mean giving up what she values most, her freedom and independence. The very first time we meet Isabel she tells Ralph that Im very fond of my liberty (p. 30) and that she is not a candidate for adoption (p. 29). Both of these statements clearly show early on that she is not looking to be tied down at all. She wants to be free to experience all that life has to offer for her. Because of that, she turns down the ...
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Principle Of Justice Theory Of Justice
1,023 wordsPoverty in the United States has long been a social, political, and human rights issue. Few people would say that it is not our moral duty, as social human beings to take care of those less fortunate than ourselves, to the best of our ability. I say? ? few? ? because there are some people out there who believe that we have no moral obligation to do anything outside of ourselves. These types of people have what is called a? ? libertarian? ? viewpoint. There is really no specific definition of? ? ...
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Fa Ade Role Playing
1,251 wordsEveryday, people all over the world are scarred emotionally from as harsh as pure hatred to simple teasing. Young children fall victim to schoolyard bullies and adults suffer for their foolish irresponsible mistakes. Nobody, it seems, is safe. So, how do people cope with this mental attack? Role-playing, also know as psychological masks, help a person develop confidence and self-esteem. Role-playing serves as a fa ade, a falsity so the outside world cannot see the reality that lies underneath. U...
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American Dream Worth Living
533 wordsReconstructing the American Dream There is an old adage which says, The root of all evil is money. This, however, is not true in America. In America, money is not the problem, the love of money, or materialism, is the problem. Materialism is at the core of our American dream. We grow up learning that success is rooted in material wealth and power. We live in a country where material things mean more to the general populous than a good education, where material things dictate the amount of money ...
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Reproductive Medicine Genetic Material
1,255 wordsReproductive technologies have the power to shape the future of the human race. If used responsibly, they can improve the quality of life for everyone and greatly reduce genetic disease. Married couples that aren t able to have children are given the ability to use their own genes to create a child of their own. These technologies can also allow parents to choose the physical and even mental attributes of their children, although parents could go overboard with this. Despite whether these techno...
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Ethical Theory Moral Responsibility
1,215 wordsThe Fifty-Nine Story Crisis Case Facts A story of professional ethics and moral responsibility was publicized in an article appearing in the May 29 th, 1995 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The article entitled The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis focuses on the ethical and moral obligations of individuals and companies involved in the construction of a skyscraper in downtown New York during 1977. In the early 1970 s, Citibank Corporation had begun to undertake the planning for a new corporate headquart...
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