1. Why do we have states? Would it be possible for people to live without them? If they disappeared in the future‚ what would replace them? We have states so that the general public can be protected from external‚ as well as internal threats. States have armies to protect citizens from other countries who might invade or who pose some other sort of threat. States also have some sort of police force to protect citizens from criminals who wish to do them some kind of harm. The social contract theory
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Pro-life groups and abortion rights activists have long been debating the moral status of embryos. Moral status refers to the intrinsic value of a person‚ animal‚ or in this case an embryo. If an entity has interests that morally matter so that it could be wronged‚ then it is considered to have moral status. The debate over whether embryos boils down to whether they have moral status or not. Pro-life groups believe that embryos do have moral status and that destroying it would be indistinguishable
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the consequence that women who have an abortion have to pay is usually excommunication from the church. Pope Francis mentioned that he would allow all priests to forgive women who want the church’s forgiveness and want to seek absolution (Miller). I believe that the Catholic Church should forgive women who have had an abortion and regret their decision because we are all human and we all make mistakes. There are several reasons why I believe that women who have had an abortion
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Most people today do not believe that Puritans had the right idea about how we should live our lives; however there are advantages to having Puritan views and values such as religious peace and a close knit community. Religion is a complicated subject that varies in each society and can create conflicts between them‚ but the Puritans were able to live amongst themselves in harmony. The English Puritans were persecuted for not conforming to the country’s religion: Protestantism. Due to this discrimination
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Developed countries do not have a moral obligation to accept immigrants from developing or third world countries because it affects the whole country in a bad way. As a human being‚ it is our responsibility to help others but our first priority is to protect our country which most of the developed countries are doing nowadays. Moral good and moral must are two different things. If first world countries want to help refugees then we can say that it is morally good and a nice step but we cannot say
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Why do we have rods and cones? Light falling on photoreceptors is transformed by retinal circuitry into a pattern of action potentials that ganglion cell axons convey to the visual centres in the brain. Two systems of photoreceptors exist – rods and cones – allowing the visual system to meet the conflicting demands of sensitivity and acuity‚ respectively. Rods and cones are distinguished by shape‚ type of photopigment they contain‚ distribution across the retina‚ and pattern of synaptic connections
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of being dead. I’m just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.” (Pamela Bone) The right to die is a very controversial topic as it is seen by some people as unethical and should be illegal. The reason for this is because the right to die is assisted suicide. 2 of the most common methods of carrying this out are drugs and injection(Methods of Euthanasia). There are some huge pros and cons to the right to die. People should have the right to die under certain circumstances. One
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has argued that the Orient was “almost a European invention” and crucial to the colonial project. Samuel Huntington argues that the world is being driven towards an evitable “clash” between essential cultural differences. What do race/ethnicity‚ culture and difference have to do with global capitalism? Global capitalism is the key to how society operates today. The impact that global capitalism has created relies much on the past in relation to race‚ ethnicity‚ culture and differences. These four categories
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GMOs Have Got to Go Do people ever truly know what is in their food? When they pop those irresistible fries into their mouths‚ are they really just eating a potato? According to researchers at Rutgers University‚ one in four people do not know that most of the food they consume is genetically modified (Hallman). “Genetic modification is the process of forcing genes from one species into another entirely unrelated species” (“GMO Defined”). Although some find genetically modified organisms to be beneficial
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Education For All What does education have to do with curing increasing poverty? Education is not about how well you do at school. It is a mean to explore the fast passed world around us. An educated person can differentiate among right and wrong. It is the foremost obligation of a society to edify its residents. Educating woman can be an asset to the society as educating them can bring about a lot of difference in the society as a whole. It is the illiterate people who take away the right of education
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