Brink offers a reply in two parts to Williams’ claim that Utilitarianism fails to give the appropriate moral weight to an agent’s personal point of view. First‚ Brink (1986: 431) denies that Utilitarianism fails to account for the individual preferences of the agent. He asserts that the Utilitarian recognises autonomy as a valuable component to be considered in Utilitarian calculus. That being so‚ he acknowledges that the principle of impartiality requires that any value to be attributed to an agent’s
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Aristotle‚ suicide was an offense against the stale‚ because man owed a civic duty to the state… Sophocles was probably the first to accept suicide as a general remedy for life’s hardships and burdens. The Stoics readily embraced this position and tolerated suicide for a variety of reasons beyond incurable illness‚ including excruciating pain (not associated with an illness) and physical disabilities.”2
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Some say it’s a great advancement in the field of biology‚ and others are against the topic completely‚ claiming it is ethically unjust. They believe that eventually it will spiral out of control‚ and humans will be cloned. They have no doubt that humans should never be cloned‚ and I completely agree. Cloning animals‚ and eventually humans‚ goes against the Bible completely. When scientists clone animals‚ they are ultimately trying to “play God”. Scientists say
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The main point that our group made surrounded the controversy that if 13 year old girls are vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease such as HPV‚ it could increase sexual activity. However‚ research by Bednarczyk et al.‚ 2012 found that HPV vaccination had no increase in the markers of sexual activity (testing for pregnancy and STD’s‚ and counselling for contraceptives). The vaccine does not appear to be changing sexual behaviours‚ only protecting those when they eventually engage in them
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Against One of the arguments against legalization of drugs is what we have all grown up hearing which is “drugs are bad”. This reason has been said throughout most of our life and is what we learn in schools. However‚ legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco have caused more harm than illegal drugs. Another argument against legalization is that it would send mix signals to children. Drugs are bad and “just say no” have been sayings we have all learned growing up. However‚ if drugs were suddenly legal
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years is women’s rights‚ but more specifically‚ abortion rights or laws. To truly understand the argument for or against abortion‚ I will examine perspectives of abortion from religious views‚ The religious people of this country stand strong against abortion. Catholics are a huge group that stands against abortion. The campaign called The March for Life is the Catholics’ primary way to dissuade people from abortion. Their goal is to “make the world more welcoming for children. To accomplish this‚ they
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An Argument Against Gun Control Gun control has become more and more of a hot-button topic in the United States‚ especially after events like the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012‚ when many people questioned the necessity of the second amendment in this day and age. Indeed‚ upholding the second amendment continues to be a difficult prospect when it does not seem like these guns are being used for good. However‚ the vast majority of people not only use them responsibly‚ but also protect themselves and
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cannot be altruistic‚ the idea that humans can have an ulterior motive‚ as it is just simply human nature. The Expected Benefit argument claims that only self-interest motivates human action. I believe that Psychological Egoism‚ is a true theory that holds strong arguments as to why‚ all human actions are motivated by self-interest‚ because whatever argument is made against this theory can always be refuted back to the idea that any action that
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passenger seat‚ I decided to turn on the radio. I tuned the radio to the local news broadcast. On the radio‚ there was a story about a muslim captain in the U.S army. This seemed a little unusual because you don’t hear about muslims in a good light from the media most of the time. As my father and I were listening to the broadcast‚ we found out that the muslim captain had sacrificed himself for his squadron. Captain Humayun Khan was patrolling a guard post and he saw a suspicious vehicle approaching
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with the advancement of neuroscience. As Papineau highlights “we find it very difficult to absorb this lesson” (Papineau 2010: 5). One argument against this belief is the ‘philosophical zombies argument’ which purports to cause problems for reductive physicalism. In this essay‚ I will argue against this counterargument. Reductive physicalism tries to solve the what Chalmers calls‚ “the hard problem of consciousness” (Chalmers 2010). This tries to answer the question as
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