Suicide-A morally responsible action? The suicide culture in Japan has always been a prominent issue‚ and is held in a peculiar view by many. 30‚000 Japanese commit suicide annually (McCurry‚ 2014)‚ making Japan the 8th country with the highest suicide rates (WHO‚ 2014). This “suicide culture” stems from Japan’s historical roots— the warrior bushido honour code which justifies one’s basis to committ suicide. Can suicide be considered a morally responsible action this way? Or is it a beautiful death
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John Greavu My Attempt in Living Morally If life had a rulebook‚ it would be written by the Ancient Greeks. Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle built the foundation of how every human being “should” live. Making decisions based off what is believed to be right or wrong affects almost countless moments in each day for us humans. Eventually‚ after much practice‚ making correct decisions would become near habitual. Can you imagine the world today if everyone strived to live ethically? Before you change
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In the novel The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan‚ an important relationship is that between Marnie and Raven. This relationship helps us to understand the idea that perceived ‘outsiders’ can be treated inhumanely by a community. Marnie is treated as an outsider because of her sex and her ill-defined place in a medieval society. Raven is treated as an outsider because of his disability. Together‚ their relationship founded on their similar backgrounds gains the reader’s empathy. Jordan is able
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catch fish. The sailor dies and the cook butchers and eats him. Pi and his mother try to stop him. He kills Pi’s mother and throws her head towards Pi. Later Pi fights the cook and kills him in a moment of revenge and self preservation Was Pi’s act morally justified? As moral arguments are best proven by analogies‚ let us consider four people in the same situation but a different setting. Four strangers (namely A‚B‚C‚D) are stuck in a lifeboat. A has a gun and decides to kill B (who was already injured
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Friedrich Nietzsche once said‚ “By morality the individual is taught to become a function of the herd‚ and to ascribe to himself value only as a function…Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.” Is Morality absolute or relative? Although there are many interpretations explaining why both could be right‚ each of them have theories proving why they could also be wrong. There are billions of people on this earth who come from different cultural backgrounds. Even though no culture is the same
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Non-Ambiguous: A Dream and Reality Now Severed Wesley J.A. Todd America was the great melting pot. It was full of many diverse flavors. Some were spicy‚ some were tart‚ and some were even bitter; it was boiling and brimming‚ but it is now burning. Is our pot too full; is it time to replace the lid? Bruce Springsteen once stated‚ “I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.” One may feel that the American dream is no longer ambiguous with the American
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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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1. Yes‚ affirmative action policy is morally defensible‚ 2. I think United States of America has successfully implemented the policy of affirmative action‚ majority of people of all racial groups there (African Americans/ blacks)‚ are employed and there is a balance between men and woman. The policy succeeded because they managed to empower or to redress the racial issue in most sectors of the economy. 3. South African government chose to implement the affirmative action and act‚ because
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Morally Fair Limbo The Inferno was part of the three-part poem called The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. Dante‚who lived from 1265 to 1321‚ was born in Florence to a middle class family and grew up during the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. While Dante was away on a diplomatic trip‚ the Black Guelfs took over Florence and banished Dante from the city. During his life in exile‚ Dante wrote the epic poem The Divine Comedy and finished it shortly before his death
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“Will You Please be Quiet‚ Please” is a short story collection that explores the human condition in the blue collar‚ working class citizens of the 1960’s in America. Carver is known not only for his minimalist style of writing‚ but also for his habit of basing many‚ if not all‚ of his stories on his own real life experiences. In this collection‚ Carver shows modern life as a series of hardships whereby ordinary people‚ who have the odds stacked against them‚ must battle for survival. He explores
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