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    Moral Dilemmas

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    10. Concentration Camp10952You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?9. The AccidentAmbulanceYou are an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of an accident. When you arrive you see that the car belongs

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    Issues Today: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism One of the most pertinent issues of the past twenty years has been the conflict between two different ideologies of human rights on a national scale‚ universalism‚ and cultural relativism. Universalism holds that more “primitive” cultures will eventually evolve to have the same system of law and rights as Western cultures. Cultural relativists hold an opposite‚ but similarly rigid viewpoint‚ that a traditional culture is unchangeable. In universalism

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    ethics of computer games is Cultural Relativism‚ Subjectivism in Ethics‚ Divine Command Theory‚ Natural Law Theory‚ and Ethical Egoism. These arguments do not meet the minimum conception of morality which is Reason and impartiality. For all these arguments to be solid they also need to have reason and logic supporting it. All these arguments which are now mostly unfollowed because of the evident flaws they pertain are as follows. Starting off with cultural relativism as professor Buscani states‚ Different

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    “Power” be immoral? To answer this question I would have to go back to Master Moral Vs. Slave Moral. Nietzsche stated Master Moral was of “noble human being honors himself as one who is powerful‚ also as one who has power over himself”. (page 25 &26) And Slave Moral of “slave’s eye is not favorable to the virtues of the powerful: he is skeptical and suspicious‚

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    Understanding Moral Understanding Throughout time there has always been this nagging question of what is right and what is wrong. As of yet‚ there is no universal agreement on the correct answer to that question‚ which leads to wondering: how do we even begin to make the decision of morals and where do they come from? Are morals imbedded in us from birth or are they programmed into us through life‚ nature verses nurture? According to psychology moral understanding is a process. No one starts

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    Natural Moral Law to moral decision making. As an ethical theory‚ natural law has a number of strengths; it allows Christians today‚ using their human reason to guide them‚ live as God intends them to live. However it can be argued that is has a number of weaknesses also‚ for example its religious underpinning. Taking a natural law approach to moral decision making can be seen as beneficial as it is a simplistic and universal guide to morality. As human reason forms the basis to this moral approach

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    There’s been a lot of discussion over the years about the proper way to refer to someone with dwarfism. Many people who have the condition prefer the term "little person" or "person of short stature." For some‚ "dwarf" is acceptable. For most‚ "midget" definitely is not. But here’s an idea everyone can agree on: Why not simply call a person with dwarfism by his or her name? Being of short stature is only one of the characteristics that make a little person who he or she is. If you’re the

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    Story with a Moral

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    THE VISIT OF THE SWAN | Make friends among people who are like you | | Once there lived a swan by the side of a big lake. The lake was situated in the middle of a dense forest.  The swan was passing his days happily‚ until one day‚ an owl came there. He drank the water of the lake and started living there.  "This is an isolated place‚" said the swan to the owl. "Besides‚ the lake goes dry during the summer season. It is better that you go to some other place to live in."  But the

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    Case Against Moral Elitism

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    Assess the case against Moral Elitism Moral Elitist believe in a metaphysical claim: there are moral facts and an epistemic claim: we have access to them. According to moral relativism‚ there are no moral principles or values objectively real and applicable to everyone; rather‚ what’s right/wrong and good/bad essentially depends on individual preference or culture‚ and this varies from person to person or group to group. There is not just one moral fact but instead there are millions and we access

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    Moral Rights Summary

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    have a clear beneficiary but after closer examination in this game‚ no winner would be identified. Colonialism breed the internalization of pseudo-humanism in both the the colonizer and the colonized. During the establishment of colonization‚ the moral base of the colonizer was disassembled and sold for wealth. While the colonized were massacred and exploited which undermined the futures of their economies and national development. In this paper I take you on a conquest to explore the effects of

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