The claim that is introduced needs more evidence and numbers to back it up. As the argument is currently presented‚ it dismantles itself. It states that "many lives may be saved" if individuals were inoculated against the disease but that there is only a "small possibility that a person will die as a result of the inoculations." A person viewing this with a critical eye‚ can immediately see that in this language‚ the amounts of lives saved by this inoculation will far outnumber the potential deaths
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The Teleological Argument for God There are many theories about how the universe‚ earth‚ and humans came into existence. Some aim to prove the existence of God‚ that a large explosion created all life‚ or even that everything has just always existed. One of these theories works to answer questions about creation and prove the existence of the Christian God; this theory is known as the Teleological argument. To expand my basis of knowledge on this subject I consulted Matthew Esters‚ who recently
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The infant industry argument is an economic reason for protectionism. The crux of the argument is that nascent industries often do not have the economies of scale that their older competitors from other countries may have‚ and thus need to be protected until they can attain similar economies of scale. It was first used by Alexander Hamilton in 1790 and later by Friedrich List‚ in 1841‚ to support protection for German manufacturing against British industry.[1] Protectionism allows an industry
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The Kalam cosmological argument points to the creation of the universe as proof of the divine. To do so it involves proving that the universe did indeed have a beginning‚ and has not existed for an infinite amount of time. It also argues that all things including the universe itself‚ with the exception of God‚ are caused. Furthermore this cause was personal. The first argument presented is that an actual infinite is a logical impossibility. Allowance is made for potential infinites (i.e. the future)
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People with self-control can control their emotions. During an argument‚ they control their natural tendency to become extremely upset or sad. However‚ temperate people in an argument understand that emotions will only make their argument worse‚ so they don’t have their emotions overcome them. Next‚ people with self-control suppress their desires to eat a whole pizza in one setting. They don’t eat
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Explain the challenges to the moral argument Kant’s moral argument can be summarised in 4 points. Point 1‚ a good will or a person with right moral intentions seeks to bring about the summum bonum. If we take our ethics seriously we can see that we want to achieve the summum bonum. Kant‚ however was adamant that people should not act nice to receive an award at the end of the act. Kant was convinced that an act is only morally good if it is done for its on sake and without any selfish thoughts
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Ryan Horler What arguments are presented in the Crito for the conclusion that Socrates would be acting unjustly if he escaped from prison and evaded his sentence? Do you find them convincing? The Platonic ’Death of Socrates Dialogues’‚ are a quartet of important and influential conversations written by Plato‚ but told through the eyes of his mentor Socrates. Written in 386BC‚ they tell the story surrounding the Socrates being charged by the state for piety and corruption of the youth
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The argument that I am laying out to you is the legalization of marijuana for both medical and leisure purposes. This argument does not pertain for marijuana being healthy for us or for illegal drugs to be legalized. Furthermore‚ it is more geared in the direction of marijuana in the medical world and its health benefits in association to legal substances. First‚ I want to explain some vocabulary in this argument that I feel needs to be explored. When the female
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dreaming argument to break down the very foundations of any and all beliefs gained via sensory experience. The First Meditation is used to begin in a position the Aristotelian philosophers would agree with by claiming that the meditators most certain beliefs come from the senses. From there he used the Meditations to subtly break down the foundations for beliefs gained by sensory experience. In doing so Descartes’ meditator is able to fend off all challengers to his skeptical argument and thus seduce
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questions a computer based on logic can answer. In an explicit argument‚ it would look something like this: humans have no limits to what logical questions they can
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