Mandatory Minimum Sentences: The Arguments for and Against Potential Reforms” By Evan Bernick and Paul Larkin‚it stated‚ “Mandatory minimum sentences also prevent crime because certain and severe punishment inevitably will have a deterrent effect.” In other words‚ sentencing a person with a precise amount time in prison would leave a long-term effect on the person that they would mostly like not commit another crime. Their statement is invalid because in the article “ Against his better Judgement” by Eli
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English 102 12 March‚ 2013 Argue in support of or against the statement that video games have “a redeeming social value.” Do violent video games have “a redeeming social value?” You could get many different answers to this question depending on who you ask. Is there any good that can come from video games? What harm can come to people and society from video games? Is modern culture being affected either negatively or positively by today’s video games and those that play them? Are young‚ impressionable
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In this week‚ there was the topic from the whaling ban and the issues this caused. I chose the whaling ban because I like the animals and I’m against the violence or any harm with animals. Each paragraph answers the questions for the assignment. I don’t agree with the Norwegian and Japanese for hunting whales as a cultural exemption. My arguments to be against this “cultural tradition” are the cruelty the whales suffer when they got kill with lethal methods such as the use of the explosive grenade
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15). Many of the injustices against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are specific to them‚ for example land rights and the stolen generations issues. In response to these issues‚ the Federal Government has discussed the adoption of a Northern Territory National Emergency
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Due to the fact that these supporters truly believe that gun deaths are the leading deaths in America today‚ they are highly against people in communities owning guns. Gun control opponents arguments is that‚ “most mass shootings occur in gun free-zones such as schools and offices that embolden would-be killers because they know no one will be able to shoot back” (“How” 2). Gun control supporters are striving
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Brink offers a reply in two parts to Williams’ claim that Utilitarianism fails to give the appropriate moral weight to an agent’s personal point of view. First‚ Brink (1986: 431) denies that Utilitarianism fails to account for the individual preferences of the agent. He asserts that the Utilitarian recognises autonomy as a valuable component to be considered in Utilitarian calculus. That being so‚ he acknowledges that the principle of impartiality requires that any value to be attributed to an agent’s
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Interracial Marriage Interracial marriage is a controversial topic‚ but it really doesn’t need to be. Marriage‚ although not directly mentioned in the Constitution‚ is viewed as a basic Constitutional right‚ and should be allowed for any two persons‚ no matter what they look like or where they came from. In fact‚ scientific studies have proven that race shouldn’t be an issue at all. Some might argue that‚ in the scriptures‚ God separated the different races‚ but they forget that he created them
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One main reason why life sentencing is so often contested against is the idea that continually harshly punishing a child for an action does not give chance for reform‚ for example “when a drug that has been prescribed for an illness fails to work‚ the best response is not always to give more of the same medicine
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Everyone has their views and opinions on the death penalty. They are either for it or against it‚ but what does that really mean? Sixty-three percent of the population of America are for it because a human being killed another human and they think that it is only fair that the defendant also dies. Then the other thirty-seven percent are against it either because it may have been a loved one that had killed someone and they do not want to see their loved one be killed or they think that killing the
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Institution Name Student Name Roll No Topic: What are the main arguments for and against needle exchanges? The needle exchange program is a social service program which is aimed at allowing the drug syringe users to have free or cheap access to hypodermic needles. The idea underlying the program is to realize the concept of harm reduction i.e. to reduce the harm and to reduce the risk associated with the use of syringes. It is because the syringe users who use syringes for drug
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