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    Throughout the chapter‚ Genetic Choices‚ the issue of moral obligations in regards to genetic information about potential disease and illness. Upon review‚ I find individuals to have a moral obligation to warn others if they have knowledge about their genetic predisposition in regards to disease and/ or illness. The first case I will discuss is when an individual knows their family members are either at great risk or are certain to have a specific disease and/ or illness due to their diagnosis or

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    into account when it comes to helping. He argues that it makes no moral difference whether the person you help is a neighbor ten yards away or a person in another country (Singer‚ 1972‚ p. 231-232). Singer also wants you to take into consideration that the principles don’t make a distinction between people. It doesn’t matter that it is just you or you and a million others in the same position. If someone is doing nothing‚ in moral terms‚ it is no different than the absence of people doing something

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    Reduce Poverty

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    ‚eradicate corruption and help/participate in socio-economic development and programmes. We must be responsible citizens and contribute our share to ensure all possible ways for the policies to be implemented. Donations are the best way to reduce poverty in a small scale....... We can open our own NGO to help the poor in all primary ways like providing food‚ cloths ‚ educations etc.. If you own a company or an offce you could employ people who are very poor! Small things can make great differences

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    What Is Moral Obligation

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    What is moral obligation? What is the extent of our moral obligation to other people and other living things? By definition moral obligation is the belief that an act is one prescribed by a persons set of values (Wikipedia‚ 2005). It is also a duty‚ which one owes‚ and which one ought to perform‚ but is not legally bound to fulfill. David Hume ’s moral theory hinges on a distinction between psychologically distinct players: the moral agent‚ the receiver‚ and the moral spectator. All actions

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    Affirming achieves the value of morality defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as‚ “conforming to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.” This is the proper value for the round because of the word ‘ought’ in the resolution which the same sourced defines as‚ ‘Used to express duty or moral obligation’ meaning the resolution is asking us to determine the more moral means of providing drinking water to people. Morality is also the proper value because

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    My Moral Obligation

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    Nicole Swires Mrs. Matayabas ENG 101 2:05 18 February 2010 My Moral Obligation to the Poor Have you ever stopped to think about all the general essentials you have access to and all the material possessions you have been blessed with? Often times I see people around me who seem unhappy with what they do have. There is nothing wrong with wanting or buying more than what we need; luxuries are nice. The problem comes in when we only think about ourselves and not about other people. Some people can

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    Reduce Poverty In Mexico

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    corruption‚ and most importantly poverty. Above all those‚ poverty is what mostly affects the Mexican people which forces them to immigrate and face persecution by authorities. However‚ it doesn’t have to be this way at all if the President’s wanted to. If Mexican politicians raised the labor wages for workers‚ and created more jobs this will for sure decrease poverty

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    ASSIGNMENT TITLE Describe how education can help alleviate poverty and break the poverty cycle Poverty does not always mean income disadvantages‚ but also brings about lack of empowerment and knowledge (Venkatasubramanian 2001). Ethnic groups‚ developing countries‚ and women‚ who generally lack in education‚ are considerable to be embraced by the poverty. Education is an important key to eradicate poverty. Evidence which has been given by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report

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    Strategies to Reduce Poverty

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    CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES TO REDUCE POVERTY i © 2004 by the Asian Development Bank June 2004 This publication was prepared under Regional Technical Assistance 6026: Promoting Urban Poverty Reduction through Participation in the Cities Alliance by the Agriculture‚ Natural Resources and Social Sectors Division of the Regional Sustainable Development Department‚ Asian Development Bank (ADB). The findings‚ interpretations‚ and conclusions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of ADB

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    Peter Singer argues that all people have a moral obligation to donate all that we can to the poor. The suffering and starving of those people living in poverty are not inevitable; many of us have the ability to eliminate this suffering‚ however‚ we choose not to. We have a moral duty to prevent bad things from happening as long as it does not cost at the cost of “sacrificing anything morally significant”. (Ethical Theory). Therefore‚ making such donation is moral duty for people living in affluent countries

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