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    Scenario: Right vs. Right Ethical Dilemma It was another typical Friday night in the City of Franklin. Officer Platt was following his normal patrol routes stopping occasional vehicles for traffic and vehicle infractions. On this same night Richard Hansen‚ a local business owner‚ was making his way home from work at around 1 am. Richard Hansen is also a very well known individual in this community. He supports multiple programs including Pee Wee Football and Little League baseball teams. Many people

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    Animal Rights. Should it really happen? By Joey Sullivan We eat animals‚ they help us to create medicines and vaccines and we use them to create everyday goods that we intake or use. Should animals really have the same rights as us? Some people agree that they should have the same rights as us and some people disagree. Should they really be enforced? Animals are often treated extremely badly‚ and abused because of the owners and because of companies doing testing on the animals and animal rights

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    After the liberation of slaves and then women‚ now the lights are being shed upon the subject of animal rights for public discussion. As the world population grew‚ so did the demand for animals. However‚ not all animals get the same treatment from humans. Some animals are caressed with love and care by their owners during their entire lives‚ while some others are kept in tiny cubicles where they do not even have enough space to turn around‚ only to be slaughtered for food after a few months‚ and

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    With over 850‚000 active members‚ the animal rights organization People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has blossomed into an exceptionally powerful speech community. Their main goal is to enlighten others about the prominent existence of animal cruelty in the world‚ hoping to gain enough power to abolish it‚ or at least prevent it from happening as often as it does. PETA uses language as a tool of power‚ verbalizing its message through controversial ad campaigns‚ rallies‚ marches and protests

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    Moral relativism is an ethical theory that refers to the concept that there is more than one correct moral judgment. The moral judgments are either correct or incorrect only relative to some specific standpoint. This does not mean that one standpoint is more privileged than any other standpoint. This comes from the idea that cultures from around the world tend to show different moral values; there are no general moral values that everyone in the world shares‚ and no one should push their own moral

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    He believes humans are naturally paramount to all other species‚ and that both animals and humans equally benefit from this interaction. He states that suffering of the animal is just part of the process. Unlike Budiansky‚ animal rights activist Nathan Rankle‚ the founder of Mercy for Animals‚ a non-profit organization‚ argues that there is an unnecessary amount of excess suffering and torturing of animals before and during the slaughter in factory farms that needs to be

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    people that share a culture ‚ religion‚ or language. Moral relativism is just a viewpoint from someone’s ethnical standards‚ which is how they feel. Basically it is something that people feel in their opinion that it is either right or wrong from a moral stand point in their eyes. Everyone has ethnics they might not be same as the ones you or I might have grew up with or have ever heard of but it does not mean that they are wrong or right‚ they are just different. So we as people should not base

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    This study will critically compare Ethical Subjectivism and Ethical Relativism. The study will examine the theories as well as examples by which the practical importance of the theories can be more clearly understood. The study will basically argue that both of these approaches to ethics are deeply flawed‚ but that they each have something important to contribute to the realm of ethics as well. Ethical Subjectivism is defined in terms that can appear almost absurdly simplistic. MacNiven defines

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    Individual vs. Cultural relativism Some people may argue that‚ “what’s right/moral in my eyes‚ may not be right/moral in your eyes”. This is considered individual moral relativism. Cultural moral relativism is putting culture at the top of relative ethical decision-making. (Argosy University‚ 2014). These two different moral relativisms differ in the fact that one is putting what you believe first and the other is putting your culture first. I believe that individual moral relativism has some strengths

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    Relativism and absolutism are both equally important approaches when it comes to morality. They are both relevant in that they each follow along with one another in their approaches but both offer different directions and beliefs. Relativism is one of the challenges of morality and reflects upon the existence of morality in relation to culture‚ society‚ historical/era and individuals‚ only representing one of these relations but not the others. Absolutism also believes that morality has relation

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