For many years‚ animals have been used in research both in the scientific and medical fields. In order to introduce new drugs into the market‚ they have to be tested first on animals in order to ascertain whether they are effective or not. Animal experimentation in this context defines the use of non-humans‚ mostly animals‚ to test new drugs and consumer goods such as cosmetics‚ pesticides‚ herbicides‚ food additives‚ among others (Taylor 120). Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions have
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Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy Cultural Relativism is the theory that all belief’s are equally valid and that truth itself is relative‚ depending on the situation‚ environment and individual. Those who hold the belief of Cultural Relativist‚ hold that all beliefs are completely relative to the individual within a cultural identity. In this essay‚ I will show that cultural relativism is unreliable as an ethical theory by showing the irrationality of the arguments that support it. The
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Everyone has a right‚ we human begins have a right. So why shouldn’t animal have their rights? Human beings are no different from other animals‚ with no divine or elevated nature which makes us distinct. Human beings are ethically bound not to use other animals for their own selfish purpose. If human beings are no different from other animals‚ then like all other animals is it our nature to kill any other animal which serves the purposes of our survival and well-being‚ for that is the way of all
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Cultural relativism holds that there is no universal morality that is common among all cultures. Specifically‚ in an article on cultural relativism James Rachels states the following characteristics of cultural relativism: 1) Different societies have different moral codes; 2) There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one societal code better than another; 3) The moral code of our own society has no special status; it is merely one among many; 4) There is no "universal truth"
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Animals just like humans are a subject of life and therefore this brings about the issue of them having rights too. And having being a subject of life can be justified by them having as much high levels of complexity as humans and therefore much time is needed for one to study them and to get to understand a whole lot of things about them. This is to say getting to know what their preferences are and what they dislike. Animals are aware of their existence and are therefore conscious and make conscious
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July 2‚ 2010 Ethics Reaction Paper 1 Relativism and Universalism The battle between relativism and universalism ideologies has been going on for several years now. There have been many highly respected people agreeing and disagreeing on which belief is right and wrong. The two well known are American Anthropologist Ruth Benedict and Dr. Louis Pojman. Upon reading their work‚ I found both of them to have very excellent points. I found myself hard to just pick one ideology. After
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Article: Discussing Animal Rights and Animal Research in the Classroom By Harold A. Herzog 1. Research Question or Problem The purpose of this article is to look at animal research in psychology and how the discussion of animal rights is essential to students taking psychology courses. 2. Introduction There is a growing public concern over the ethical treatment of animals. Animal rights groups have criticized the uses of animals from wearing fur‚ sports hunting‚ rodeos‚ and the consumption
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Running head: RELATIVISM AND MORALITY Relativism and Morality Rodney L. Cotton SOC 120 Robert Neely February 21‚ 2011 Relativism and Morality In the article‚ “Some Moral Minima‚” Lenn E. Goodman raises the question‚ “if it is true that no norm can be made absolute unless some other is compromised‚ are there no rules that tell us that principles are principles – no norms delineating concretely‚ and uncompromisingly‚ wrong from right?” (Goodman‚ 2010) Goodman goes on to state that the
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judgement but yet to be true to their name ‘relativist’ they would be practising ‘do not pass judgement’ thus they are preaching to others that they should not do something in order for others to follow relativism. This concludes that relativism is self – refuting because a concept of relativism has been broken in order to follow it. This could be seen as unfair because to put relativist morality into
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Owning Exotic Animals‚ is it ethical? Many people have pets in their homes such as dogs and cats. However‚ some people want something a bit more exotic and exciting. When a person thinks of exotic animals‚ what usually comes to mind? Many people think big cats such as tigers‚ leopards and bears‚ but there are more than just those particular animals. What are also included in the exotic groups are the reptiles‚ amphibians‚ birds‚ rodents‚ other large and small mammals. These animals are not the
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