Illegal Downloading: Everyone does it‚ so what’s the problem? You are sitting at home on the computer thinking of what you want to do. You realize you haven’t heard the latest song from your favorite band. You start up a P2P (peer-to-peer) program called Limewire. You search for your song and it appears in the list; you start to download it. What you just did was completely illegal and can get you into a lot of trouble. Most people would think to themselves‚ “What’s the harm in downloading
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Ever since the start of illegal music downloading there has been an ongoing debate. As with any controversy‚ there are those whose positions stand at one end of the spectrum or the other and also those who are moderate or nonchalant. Many believe that downloading a song without paying for it is not only illegal‚ but also immoral. None-the less‚ people continue to download songs‚ rationalizing that the record companies are getting what they deserve after years of overpriced CD’s or that the artists
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responsibility which implies that a women is responsible to bear a child if she chooses to have sex. More often than not the typical reply is that women can practice safe sex‚ but not everyone has access to contraceptives that easily. In addition‚ people from economically disadvantaged areas don’t have proper sex education. Simply put an argument such as this judges a women in regards to her behavior and has nothing to do with the right to
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Internet and the Music Industry Cassandra Utz University of Phoenix In our society today‚ there is a growing number of consumers using the Internet as a main source for music. The smaller music companies are having to come up with new and different ways to use the Internet to increase their sales. The music companies can drive there sales because so many
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Free Music Downloading Should free- music downloading be banned? I believed that allowing free access to unlimited songs could eventually undermine the music industry; however‚ nobody wants to pay outrageous amounts just for a few good songs on a bad CD. When I looked up information regarding these stats‚ results shocked me. The people who never download files or pirate CD’s (about 54% of the population) make up only 39% of music sales. The majority of sales belong to the infrequent downloaders
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force in many of countries around the world and in today ’s modern society‚ it has become a highly controversial and debatable topic. Many either stand on the grounds that the death penalty is morally wrong and there are other means of achieving justice‚ or the opposing argument. These arguments arise from the notion of human dignity. Human dignity is a major factor as execution by the state contradicts the universally recognised fundamental rights as outlined by the United Nations. In relation to
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seemingly “good” people can be able to ignore what is obviously morally wrong led me to an article about an interesting experiment: The Milgram experiment. This experiment‚ developed and run by Stanley Milgram‚ took place at Yale University in 1961. Milgram’s experiment consisted of having volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds and occupations individually brought into a room and sat at a table with an array of levers. Across from this volunteer was another person who knew about the parameters
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plausible moral theory because the two fundamental principles from Kant’s Categorical Imperatives are unable to account for the permissibility of certain acts that would otherwise be considered immoral. This would discredit the usefulness of Kant’s theory as a moral guideline because individuals would then be able to commit acts - those of which would be considered immoral according to considered moral judgements - and yet not be proven morally wrong because of the lack of accountability that the principles
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alright to break the law‚ but whether or not it is the morally right decision depends on the individual‚ their personal experiences‚ their capability to decide between right and wrong and possibly their belief in ethical codes of conduct. A general obligation would leave you with the possibility of justifying specific breaches of the law‚ such as driving above the speed limit to get a sick friend to the hospital. This may be seen as a morally justified thing to do in that circumstance‚ however it
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Racial Profiling is Morally wrong Some people are not aware of the racial profiling that still exists in America‚ and if they are they make no effort of talking about it. Police prejudice and racial profiling is responsible for many false arrests‚ convictions and deaths of African Americans. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have committed an offense. This has been an ongoing problem that African Americans have been dealing with for more than
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