google search would fill your screen with horror story after gruesome tale on the inhumane actions of scientists towards animals in the name of ‘research’. Animal rights activists are quick to fight for the end of these appalling incidents and heinous actions. The immediate reaction is to abolish‚ or at least substantially curtail‚ researchers ability to do testing involving animals. Abuse of this ability is actually a minority‚ but only extreme stories and drastic accounts catch on in the news. This
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The Issue of Moral Relativism Student’s Name Institution of Learning The Issue of Moral Relativism As it is known‚ moral relativism is a point of view that denies the existence of absolute moral truths (Gowans‚ 2015). In turn‚ moral absolutism claims the existence of objective moral values that are present in any type of culture (“What is Ethics? n.d.”). Supporters of moral relativism use several arguments in favor of their point of view. Their first argument is based on a “plain fact
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Absolutism and relativism are two extreme ethical approaches to reality. While they are both valid and supported by facts‚ they are very contrasting in their views. Values are what a person cares about and thinks is worthwhile. For example‚ values can include life‚ love‚ religious faith‚ freedom‚ relationships‚health‚ justice‚ education‚ family and many other things. Usually these values are what provides the passion in a person’s life‚ and gives them hope and a reason for being. A person might go
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Ever watch America’s funniest home video and think‚ my animal can do that. Animals can be the only enterntainment a person needs. Every animal is unique in their own way in how they think‚ listen and act. My animals are not just animals‚ they are members if the family. My cat‚ Isabella‚ unfornuatly has a habbit of licking her fur too much‚ to the point of the fur falling off. She didn’t believe me when I threatened to get a shirt if she didn’t stop. Isabella continued to lick so I bought a shirt
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Cultural relativism is simply explained as such that a culture of some sort has their own set of moral codes and beliefs where they all agree that whatever is the rules they must follow because they believe it is morally correct and ethical. For example‚ in the Philippines‚ president Rodrigo Duterte believes in the extrajudicial killings of drug users and drug dealers because it is morally right to cleanse their society from it. People in that culture believes that it is correct because they all
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Moral Objectivism and Moral Relativism Today there are many people that stand by moral relativism‚ which claims that moral values are not objective. The liberal mindset of accepting other cultures and values leads some people to select moral relativism over moral objectivism‚ which claims that moral values are objective. Moral relativism is problematic in that it allows one to validly select any moral argument‚ and ultimately subverts the primary goal of ethics. Moral values are objective‚ and
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Literature Review: Annotations Books: Hayhurst‚ Chris. Animal Testing: The Animal Rights Debate. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group‚ Inc. 2000. Print. Summary/Description: This book discusses the pros and cons of animal testing. It gives a brief history of the animal right movement‚ and It also address the legal and ethical issues involved around this cruel testing. The Animal Act was rejected by Congress in the United States and animal testing became a part of scientific and medical life.
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Relevant Ethical Principles The ethical principles and professional standards that pertain to this case are as follows: Respect for Colleagues. Shamoo and Resnik’s Responsible Conduct of Research describes having respect for colleagues as “Help[ing] to educate‚ train‚ mentor‚ and advise the next generation of researchers.” (Shamoo‚ 18). This is important because‚ as a lead researcher‚ you are taking responsibility for the researchers working under you. If a researcher practices ethical misconduct
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Should it be legal‚ is it ethical? The subject is animal testing. This is a hot subject with many scientific researches and animal advocate groups. Both sides of this topic have valid opinions on the subject. This subject could go either way. Animals have been the main focus of scientific experiments for years‚ mostly for solutions to scientific problems or for the basis of theories. Or is it that scientists are conducting experiments and designing products the wrong way? Animal testing is one of the
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as taboo; however animal cloning is now an issue. The idea of animal cloning being a good thing is the volume of the number of steaks would increase and be more nutritional. Also‚ cloning somehow would bring about new vaccines. The intentions of cloning animals are to improve livestock‚ use parts of pigs for human transplants‚ and to make drugs. The FDA is also getting involved or will soon be. Allowing cloned cow and the bad to be lifted to sell cloned cows and other animals would lead to a much
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