the boy who won the game did nothing wrong to anybody – except the boy who lost. It is possible that the boy who lost took the celebration as a taunt‚ got angry‚ and attacked the winner. These examples show that the argument of whether revenge is justified varies greatly‚ not so much depending on a situation itself‚ but on the perspective a person has on the situation. Going back to the first example‚ a judge who might be deciding the appropriate punishment for the impaired driver would probably immediately
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were denied by lawyers. Conviction based on patriotic "intuition" rather than evidence was allowed. In Paris‚ while some members of the upper classes were acquitted‚ the Tribunal sentenced 2‚750 to death.” ("Document E." The Reign of Terror: Was it Justified?) The revolutionaries were betraying their principles by not providing adequate due process for the accused. This led to the unjust killing of innocent people. Some of the reasons provided to prosecute those suspected of being loyalists were not
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possibly save those lives. In “The Case for Torture” Michael Levin is focusing on torture as a possible solution. He is claiming the use of torture not as a punishment but‚ an acceptable measure for preventing future evil and‚ acquiring valuable information in extreme situations. It is because millions of innocent lives that are in danger will outweigh the maximum excruciating possible pain for a person convicted guilty. In all of his examples he is showing torture as the only possible
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demonstration had been ludicrous.I believe that the actions of the authorities had been justified. This is because‚ the authorities and government had the fear of a communist uprising much like that of Russia in 1917‚ the potential conflict between the two sides with and against the argument‚ and the strikers had been causing many cases of property damage. Firstly‚ the reason the actions of the authorities had been indeed justified‚ is due to the fear of a communist revolution much like that of Russia’s in
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Orbach and Chambers (eds) (1971) Angela Davis: If they come in the morning. The Philip Parks Press: Manchester Rawls‚ John (1971) A theory of Justice Rousseau‚ Jean-Jaques (1762) The Social Contract‚ or Principles of Political Right Said‚ Edward (1978) Orientalism Pantheon Books‚ USA Tolstoy‚ Leo (1900) Thou Shall not Kill Tucker‚ and Kopel‚ David B Weber‚ Max (1947) The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation Oxford University Press: NY Weber‚ Max (1918) Politik als Beruf‚ ’ in Gesammelte Politische
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genocide of millions of people. The responsible party‚ The Nazi Regime‚ was a dictatorship out of Germany headed by their notorious leader‚ Adolf Hitler. The group targeted Jewish people and persecuted groups‚ such as gypsies and homosexuals. Hitler justified these actions because he felt the Jewish people were a lower class compared to the German people. Under the Nazi rule there was continued Jewish persecution. However‚ Hitler at some point‚ decided to finally exterminate the Jews completely. To put
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because their peers shunned them or they were fortuneless. Many offenses were petty‚ but a lot of them were extreme. There were three main things that were most alluring of all‚ minor offenses and consequences‚ large-scale crime‚ and instruments for torture. Many of the trifling crimes were punishable by public shaming or manual labor. “ Justice had power to impose fines‚ and to consign an offender for a limited time to the house of correction at Bridgewell to labor on the treadmill‚ grinding corn for
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Ethical Analysis The key stakeholders in this case are Kent‚ an employee in the marketing department‚ recently promoted to Manager‚ and Brad‚ the president of Broadway Corporation. The ethical issues in this case‚ from an individual standpoint‚ are the nudity idea and graphic violence in the Lucky video game. The ethical issues‚ from a corporate standpoint‚ are selling the video machines to the foreign markets and putting the games on the Internet as an adult product. The Consequential Theory
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horrible part of this tragedy was that the guard tortured and forced them to witness each other’s torture and yet the guard tortured them as they like. In this poem the poet used imagery to enable the reader understood the agony the Chilean woman‚ her husband and their child faced. The arrest‚ the torture by the prison guards the way they wanted to torture and yet they were forced to see each other’s torture. There is nothing more painful than watching your five years old baby‚ your wife‚ your husband
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best option‚ some still argue that sweatshops violates the laws of the countries in which they operate‚ aside from charging that sweatshops labor‚ even if mutually beneficial‚ is nevertheless often or necessarily coercive or exploitative. Sweatshops may also happen to be the best option for the potential workers since they are living in poverty and perhaps unable to adequately provide for themselves and their families‚ MNC’s provides the worker with just enough money to make the employment offer attractive
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