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    “ A Tradition of Change” Critique of: William Bennett‚ “Against Gay Marriage” Throughout the course of American history‚ every generation has built upon the foundations of freedom that were constructed by their ancestors before them. During the 1920’s‚ women finally earned the right to vote‚ and in the 1960’s‚ blacks finally gained their hard fought equality. Our current generations task‚ is to strive to obtain equal rights for homosexuals so that our children and grandchildren can live in

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    Jack Conkling‚ Kansas Teacher‚ Writes On Facebook That Being Gay Is ’The Same As Murder’ Jack Conkling‚ a Prairie Hills Middle School social studies teacher and Buhler High School assistant women’s basketball coach in Buhler‚ Kan.‚ is under fire afterequating being gay to being a murderer on his Facebook profile‚ the Hutchinson Newsreports. In his post‚ Conkling comments on gay marriage‚ writing that homosexuality "ranks in God’s eyes the same as murder‚ lying‚ stealing‚ or cheating." According

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    Benefits of Gay Marriage in New York Just recently our nation has taken initiative into changing the gay rights that our nation lacks by repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that was established in 1993 by our former president Clinton. In the United States there are only five states‚ not including District of Columbia‚ that have legalized same sex marriage. Lawmakers ignore the fact that legalizing gay marriage has economical benefits. If the state of New York were to make gay marriage legal

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    support gay marriage‚ I do believe that domestic partnership should remain allowable‚ giving a person the right to date and share their lives with whomever they so choose‚ but the sanctity of marriage should remain exclusively between one man and one woman. II. Body paragraph #1 – Topic Sentence #1 Before the passing of Prop 8‚ California was only the second state to allow same-sex marriage. In fact up until 2004 same-sex couples couldn’t wed anywhere in the country. Many gay couples

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    values in nursing practice. This study aimed to explore and describe the ethical theory of Deontology in providing nursing care to individuals in the clinical setting. And explains all of the key points‚ such as ethics and what is the importance of ethics in professional practice‚ also describe the deontology theory and discuss the importance of deontology theory in nursing‚ and evaluate the usefulness of deontology theory for nursing professional. The nursing theory is a set of concepts‚

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    Philosophy 101 Midterm Essay Number One Friday October 19th 2012 Deontology Immanuel Kant’s deontological moral theory provides a strong base for making correct decisions and is a better ethics system than Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that is attributed to philosophers John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham. Utilitarianism is a theory holding that the proper course of action is one which maximizes happiness for the majority

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    Utilitarianism and Deontology support the legalization of marijuana‚ it produces a greater good for the economy‚ health‚ and positive effect on people’s happiness. The law of duty would be moral‚ and legalizing marijuana stimulates jobs‚ reduces crime rates‚ helps medically‚ and economically produces money. As a Utilitarian‚ they believe that the best action is the one the maximizes utility‚ and in this argument marijuana is a utility that could benefit for the greater good of human beings. In Deontology‚ they

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    required by universal moral truth. Deontological theories judge the morality of choices; no matter how morally well the consequences‚ some choices are morally prohibited. For many deontologists‚ the right is said to have priority over the good. Deontology is an approach to ethics that concentrates on the rightness and wrongness of human actions themselves. Whether a situation is good or bad is dependent on whether the action that brought it about was right or wrong. To make the right moral choice

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    Deontology Deontologists claim that an action or a moral rule is right because of its own nature‚ even if it fails to bring about the greatest good. Deontology is critically based on duty (deontos) – a moral obligation we have towards another person‚ a group or society as a whole. In this sense‚ deontology is concerned with the intrinsic properties of actions‚ not their end result. Immanuel Kant is arguably the most famous advocate of modern deontology. According to Kant‚ moral law is synthetic

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    Deontology Deontology steps in where utilitarianism fails‚ utilitarianism fails in the idea that there are absolutely morally forbidden actions. But‚ in reality‚ even the worst actions are not always wrong‚ given extreme circumstances. Deontology is all about duty and moral laws. For instance‚ if a person does a good act‚ and it has a good outcome‚ from a utilitarianistic view‚ this person was right. However‚ in deontological view‚ this person is only right if the decision was made or action

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