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    Against Animal Rights In the essay‚ “The Case For Animals Rights”‚ Tom Regan stresses that‚ “the fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources‚ here for us- to be eaten‚ or surgically manipulated‚ or exploited for sports or money.” As an animal lover‚ I would never want to intentionally harm or kill any animal without a justifiable cause. But within reason‚ animals should not be treated equally as human beings. I believe that it is not inhumane for animals to be

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    Do Animals Have Rights? Should animals be harmed to benefit mankind? This pressing question has been around for at least the past two centuries. During the early nineteenth century‚ animal experiments emerged as an important method of science and‚ in fact‚ marked the birth of experimental physiology and neuroscience as we currently know it. There were‚ however‚ guidelines that existed even back then which restricted the conditions of experimentation. These early rules protected the animals

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    evaluate the book A Theory of Justice for Animals: Animal Rights in a Non-Ideal World by Robert Garner‚ with the hopes of finding more information about the controversial issue of rights for animals. In 2013‚ this book was published by Oxford University Press‚ which is a very well known and trustworthy publisher. Robert Garner is an author and a professor at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Garner strongly supports animal getting rights and wrote this book to bring attention to

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    INTRODUCTION The first article ‘hundreds of economists agree Marijuana legalization could save taxpayers $13 billion per year’ by Jonathan Benson underlines a sensible ethical issue which legalizing a plant regarded as drug – though non-narcotic – in other to save and to make more money. In second article‚ “Pepsi’s ’Next’ generation - Less sugar!”‚ Scott Morefield highlights Pepsi’s procedures of making soft-drink –thereby making money – which harmful for the customers. On one hand‚ Pepsi gets

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    have heard the expression that a person who doesn’t stand for something will fall for anything. We have allowed moral relativism to creep in and push us into the proverbial corner. Moral relativism is a belief that there is no right or wrong‚ no good or evil where rules no longer exist. Dr. Dobson’s letter seems to have more relevance today than it did 20 years ago. I believe relativism has had the most impact in regards to healthcare. The Hippocratic Oath seems to have flown out the window. The patient

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    treat one another and it cannot be changed or altered. This idea contradicts the theory of moral relativism‚ which supports the belief that the ideas of morality of being right or wrong are not firm but can be open to interpretation through cultures‚ people and situations. A great example of these two ideas causing dispute in todays society would be it’s morally wrong to kill someone‚ but it’s morally right to kill criminals with the death penalty. We are all different and the reality is that we are

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    I am going to discuss Shafer-Landau’s argument on Ethical Relativism‚ specifically his stand on Cultural Relativism. 1. Cultural Relativism says that a society’s or cultures basic ideals are considered morally right. 2. Cultural Relativism cannot make sense of moral progress. 3. Cultural Relativism contradicts itself because different societies can have different views. 4. Cultural Relativism doesn’t account for morality’s true nature. In support of Premise #2: Shafer claims “If a person’s or

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    Moral schools of thought dictate ethical behavior‚ however‚ every culture assigns ethical and moral values differently (Lecture 1). Without a moral or ethical structure‚ society would not prosper. Clashing cultural values make defining morality complicated. Ethicists argue the minimum conception of morality establishes a starting point based on reason that defines and installs a code of morality or ethics. The minimum conception of morality is an “effort to guide one’s conduct by reason—that is

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    Ethical Perspective Ethical perspectives and styles vary among individuals. All types of ethical decisions‚ personal and business‚ are based on individual ethical perspectives and styles. The four prominent categories of ethical philosophy consist of character/virtue‚ obligation/deontology‚ results/utilitarianism‚ and equity/relativism. These ethical perspectives‚ when assessed correctly‚ can provide insight into general views and approaches used in making personal and business decisions. Character

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    principles about women and to honor their religion they follow them. Cultural relativism is important here. It states that a people’s values and customs must be understood in terms of the culture of which they are a part. If the Iraqi women do not understand why they are to cover their bodies

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