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that its legalization would produce the benefits of a safer society, increased tax revenue, and the empowerment of the individuals...
die due to a womans right to choose. Each situation is taken individually but it is really all the same. These situations of human...
of an action, but there is no obvious reason to suppose that intentions, but not motives, are especially strongly connected to the...
2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...
school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...
as President against John Kerry. Rathers broadcast suggested that Bush had received preferential treatment by being allowed to se...
over those ten years it will add to the current level of air pollution in the state. This results in negative effects in terms of ...
and spread of music, but "bad" in that it could, conceivably, destroy the source of this music, the recording industry. However, i...
states have passed legislation making the practice illegal (Schafer, 2001). One would think that ones blood is private as are medi...
undertake the action that make them most people happy. Those considered in the equation will include the customers the employees, ...
he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...
when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...
The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...
"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...
Clearly, the company is obligated to its shareholders, but it also has a responsibility to the people. There are in fact many stak...
universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...
the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...
"include the collection and disaggregation of employment related data which make it difficult to ascertain the status of various g...
policy for dealing with the issue of gays and lesbians serving in the US military was implemented by the Clinton administration as...
This research paper/essay presents an overview of social work ethics from a perspective based on rule utilitarianism. The ethical ...
The paper is a summary of two articles on marking dealing with the value of hedonic and utilitarian values, one in the satisfacti...
the consequences (Honderich, 1995). Thus, in the argument presented above, it would not be necessarily wrong to kill an individual...
significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...
(Romans & Kiernan, 2002). Of course, that is debatable. Opinion enters the picture, but if a claim can be proven false, then one c...
with" (Loftus, 1995, p. 34). The relationships are too co-dependent and intimate, and once dating and sexuality is introduced to ...
more than an argument for retaliation. Even her colleague, the Honorable Edgar Egoist senses interment is not the proper democrati...
as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...
in our society advocate same-sex marriages vary dramatically. Individuals of the same sex have cohabited throughout history witho...