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    In this paper‚ I will reveal how you can make yourself believe; along with this‚ I plan to illustrate the inherent dangers that lurk in building belief systems on an illegitimate foundation and why you are morally obligated to hold true belief systems. What is a belief? It is a thought(s) that is truth to the mind. Beliefs may not always be true or legitimate‚ but the fact that the mind believes them forges them in to concrete building blocks. This creates a foundation on which actions come to

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    Assisted Suicide‚ Morally Wrong or Your Right? Is assisted suicide your right as a human; is it moral or ethical? First we must look at what is assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is a common term that most people know of‚ suicide that is facilitated by another person. (Dictionary.com) However‚ there are three terms that are sometimes used interchangeable when discussing assisted suicide; physician assisted suicide‚ assisted suicide and euthanasia. Physician assisted suicide is when a physician

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    the happiness/satisfaction that it brings should be weighed against the unhappiness/negative consequences associated with it. If the overall positive consequences are more‚ then the action is considered morally right. If the negative consequences of the action are more then‚ the action is morally wrong. As it can be seen from the above discussion‚ utilitarianism is not only concerned about one side of the action. It puts into consideration both the doer of the act and the victim or that person/group

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    Mary Anne Warren argues the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights therefore not immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s position is invalid since her argument “appears to justify not only abortion‚ but infanticide as well.” From the time that Warren’s article “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” was published she has gotten critiques that her argument “appears to justify not only abortion‚ but infanticide as well.”

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    Brandi Smithers 18 October 2012 Professor James Essay #1 Final Draft Living in a Morally Corrupt and Market Driven Society Our society is a corrupt one‚ without a doubt. Built on morals and ethics that have lost prominence and importance‚ our society and the people who it is composed of have quickly made our market economy something awful that was never intended. A market economy is essentially a harmless‚ productive way of organizing activity and trade; unfortunately‚ society has lost sight

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    is an exception to this rule such as a self-defense against violence or a threat where there is no other option. Child abuse is defined as maltreatment or causing harm to a child (Maguire et al‚ 2015‚ p. 4). Therefore‚ child abuse and neglect are morally wrong for many reasons.

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    [Name] [Professor ’s Name] [Subject] [Date] ANIMAL RIGHTS Is it morally wrong to eat meat? The movement for animal rights‚ which is also known as animal liberation‚ is the concept that the basic interests of animals should be regarded with an equal eye as with humans. It promotes the fact that animal should not be treated as public property‚ traded or be made a part of any business transaction‚ but they should be treated as legal persons‚ with their own rights. According to the Utilitarianism

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    Book Review of “The Characters of Revolutionary Characters” by Gordon S. Wood “The characters of Revolutionary Characters” is a realistic portrayal of six most important members of the founding generation of the United States. They are: George Washington‚ Ben Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ Aaron Burr‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ Thomas Paine. The Founders‚ indeed‚ were a highly unique and exceptionally talented generation. The book takes as its accent not the story

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    cases where it is morally permissible to kill one innocent person in order to save other innocent people’s lives. In the case of War‚ the soldiers are trained to kill people that they think are dangerous to others regardless‚ if they are innocent or dangerous. They do this to protect other people’s lives that is their job. Another reason would be if you were forced into a life or death situation and you could sacrifice one life to save other lives. We are taught that it is never morally acceptable to

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    and are unaware of it. Some view the lives of these children as nothing or only good for testing on. These children are called embryos and they are being killed everyday. This experiment or research is used for embryonic stem cell research. It is morally wrong and should not be continued. Embryos grow into fetus which then grows into a baby. Life begins when an embryo is fertilized. If human life begins at fertilization then disassembling embryos is killing human life. In the eyes of the law taking

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