DOING THE RIGHT THING 21 This excerpt is from Michael J. Sandel‚ Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?‚ pp. 21-30‚ by permission of the publisher. The Runaway Trolley Suppose you are the driver of a trolley car hurtling down the track at sixty miles an hour. Up ahead you see ve workers standing on the track‚ tools in hand. You try to stop‚ but you can’t. The brakes don’t work.You feel desperate‚ because you know that if you crash into these ve workers‚ they will all die. (Let’s assume you know that
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There are two main themes in The Scarlet Letter and Young Goodman Brown. One of the main themes is the idea that good and evil are always present and it is a choice to do something good or something evil. This is evident in The Scarlet Letter by the choices that Hester Prynne makes. In Young Goodman Brown‚ Brown had the choice to become good or evil as he walked through the forest. Another theme in both of the stories is how the Puritan community is corrupt. In The Scarlet Letter it is implied
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Child Soldiers By: Morgan H Have you ever held a gun‚ did it feel wrong or uncomfortable‚ well there are some kids that use one everyday‚ but are they using it on the right thing?. Child soldiers are kids as little as 8 years goes and fight for their country because they think they are doing the right thing. Child soldiers should not be a thing because they are just kids they don’t deserve to be killed when their life is just starting‚ they deserve to have a clean slate‚ they shouldn’t
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story‚ “Young Goodman Brown‚” the title character is a man who sets out on a mysterious journey into the woods and unknowingly ends up discovering a truth about himself that he cannot reconcile. At the beginning of the story‚ a newly-married Goodman Brown bids his young wife‚ Faith‚ goodbye and sets out on his journey to meet “a grave and decently attired” elderly man. While at first reluctant to keep on his journey‚ Goodman Brown allows himself to be persuaded by the
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by someone who has felt a portion of it. Hawthorn’s story ‘Young Goodman Brown’‚ we see a man named Goodman Brown‚ who says goodbye to his wife Faith outside his home in Salem Village as he sets off on a road through a gloomy forest. The life people lived during this period‚ were that of shortage of food‚ water‚ and illnesses without a cure‚ but the major problem people had was a fear of evil. The arrangement of the story as Goodman Brown was talking with his wife‚ tells us that she felt concern for
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Ethics: Right or Wrong? How does one determine what is wrong or right‚ good or bad? There is always a distinct right or wrong answer to most questions‚ except when it comes to ethics. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines ethics as “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation” and as “a set of moral principles: a theory or system of moral values” (“ethic‚” defs. 1 and 2a). One individual’s ethics may not be the same as another. Their morals‚ what they were taught
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The Right and Wrong Way to Love What is love? Love is the warm feeling of affection towards someone who you truly care about‚ having that strong liking and great pleasure for your loved one. When you truly love someone it comes naturally to do what is right. Treating someone that you truly care about with fondness makes and keeps your mate happy. When someone is doing something wrong then distrust and unhappiness soon comes into play. Your mate notices a change in the way you treat and act around
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There are several different perspectives on weather abortion is right or wrong. It often becomes a controversy. One way of arguing it is with Kerby Anderson’s "A Biblical View of Abortion." Another is with Richard J. Hardy’s "The Right to Choose." And lastly is Rachel’s‚ an anonymous writer from msngroups.com‚ "Abortion the Murder of Innocence." Each of theses controversial articles are to objectively present different view or perspectives of abortion. Kerby Anderson’s "A Biblical View of
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online. Even then‚ they were written by foreign reporters. We‚ according to Peter S. Goodman‚ need to have American reporters in those foreign countries since we are affiliated with them. In order to persuade his audience that news organizations should increase the amount of foreign news coverage provided to people in the United States‚ Goodman uses appeal to logos‚ problem and solution‚ and comparison. Goodman uses statistics to appeal to the logical side of people to show them why we need to
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Question: Do you think that people from certain ethnic backgrounds should be given greater access to education? Food‚ water and shelter are basic needs for a human. We need them to keep ourselves alive. However‚ nowadays‚ there is also a need for education to make sure we can survive on this earth. People need education to become knowledgeable. With knowledge‚ we will able to work for our basic needs. As education is essential to everyone‚ should people from certain ethic backgrounds be given greater
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