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    be handled through utilitarianism: one life equals one life‚ no matter of species‚ more often than not humans utilize egoism to make their arguments. I believe that Singer is right in his argument because ultimately‚ life is not a game and everyone only has one chance. Whether it be a homo-sapiens‚ a canis-familiaris‚

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    Summary: The essay “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” by Peter Singer is about global responsibility‚ absurd conception of success and circle of ethics. The essay begins by asking students the questions about what they do if there was a drowning child. The essay later goes into detail that we shouldn’t limited ourselves to problems within a local area and that we must be focus on problems affecting the global community. Towards the end‚ it talks about society’s want for material thing

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    Several international organizations have commented on various methods of execution‚ condoning them or calling for more humane treatment where the death penalty is used. The Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty provides that “where capital punishment occurs‚ it shall be carried out so as to inflict the minimum possible suffering.” Moreover‚ in its General Comment 20‚ the Committee recognized that when the death penalty is imposed‚ it must be carried

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    system is experiencing a dilemma that is going unnoticed. Schools today are not just being inadequately funded‚ or overcrowded‚ but something more interesting. Jonathan Kozol explains the issue at hand in his book‚ The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. Jonathan Kozol started out as a fourth grade teacher and holds an English degree from Harvard University. He has written a number of other books highlighting topics of our education system. He has published Rachel

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    Riddled with numerous contradictions‚ Peter Singer’s book on effective altruism has critics and the public questioning the points he argues. In particular‚ Singer leaves a “grey area” in the way he chooses to articulate explanations and examples of effective altruism. Peter Singer’s generalization of emotional altruists‚ or “warm glowers”‚ lacks an explanation or consideration for individuals who do not fall into his categories of effective altruists who had the education‚ finances‚ or time to make

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    On September 5th‚ 1999‚ Peter Singer wrote an article for the New York Times newspaper titled The Singer Solution to World Poverty. He states that residents in developed countries should donate to charitable causes aimed at reducing poverty. In the past‚ some of his works have been controversial‚ and this extends to his works on the relationship between charity and the public. He points out that it is wrong for people to enjoy their wealth and live in luxury while majority of people are suffering

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    “Your Only Shame is to Have Shame” Every individual in this world faces some type of problem through out their lives‚ and everyone overcomes them in different ways. People sometimes release their stress and problems through writing what they feel‚ and by writing they feel they go somewhere else. Amy Tan‚ a Chinese American‚ struggled with her true identity which influence her works which mainly focus on identity‚ the Chinese American dream‚ and family struggles. Amy Tan had a childhood full of ups

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    In the article “Opinion: Can artificial intelligence be ethical?” published by Project Syndicate‚ professor Peter Singer tries to persuade his readers that with how AI has progressed‚ with its advantages and its unknowns‚ it could result in immoral consequences so we have to try to teach machines how to behave ethically. Singer states that “AlphaGo was designed to win by playing a huge number of games against other programs and adopting the best strategies that proved successful” (par. 3) saying

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    The question that comes into factor is what would Immanuel Kant‚ John Stuart Mill‚ and Peter Singer do if they were faced with a choice that involved children and their well being what they would advise me to do in the situation. In the paper I will explain how Immanuel Kant is a great philosopher and also explain how he would want me to consider the situation‚ and I will also compare John Mill and Peter Singer to discuss their similarities and how the idea of Utilitarianism would allow

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    The society of traditional Japan was long held to be a good example of one in which shame is the primary agent of social control. The first book to cogently[citation needed] explain the workings of the Japanese society for the Western reader was The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. This book was produced under less than ideal circumstances since it was written during the early years of World War II in an attempt to understand the people who had become such a powerful enemy of the West. Under the conditions

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