Most utilitarian theories deal with producing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. Negative utilitarianism (NU) requires us to promote the least amount of evil or harm‚ or to prevent the greatest amount of suffering for the greatest number. Proponents like Karl Popper‚ Christoph Fehige and Clark Wolf argue that this is a more effective ethical formula‚ since‚ they contend‚ the greatest harms are more consequential than the greatest goods. Karl Popper also referred to an
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September 6‚ 2014 Negative Effects of Technology Technology has had a negative effect on people’s lives. Technology has distracted kids‚ caused accidents‚ and health problems. It’s actually kind of sad. Technology has negatively affected kids in such a huge way‚ especially in schools. Most kids claim they’re bored so they pull out their cell phones or Ipods. Their attention span isn’t but so big‚ so they tend to get distracted easily by fumbling with their phones and playing games. This is
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Attitudes are contagious. Negative attitudes at the workplace bring an organisation towards failure in the long run. There are many things which contribute to a negative work environment. Here are some forms of negative attitudes: • Meetings in which most of the discussion is on what is going wrong rather than about ideas on how to solve the problem. • Groups of people complain about the way the company is being run and how the company is “screwing them over.” • Upper management seems to care
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same data illustrates that a student may be at risk of failing in an academic area‚ a team of educators should create a documented intervention plan that helps that student to be successessful and to prevent them from failing. This plan is known as Response to Intervention (RTI). Although this process was introduced in the 1070‚ s (Ortiz‚ 2006)‚ it has been reshaped and reintroduced as a best practice to meet the needs of students today. Many educators
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Course: IB Economics SL Commentary number: 1 School name: Candidate name: Candidate number: Date commentary was written: 24 May 2014 Section of the syllabus to which the commentary relates: Section 1 – Microeconomics Word count: 745 Source of extract: Richard J. Brennan‚ Published on Thu May 01 2014‚ Tax on cigarettes going up http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/05/01/tax_on_cigarettes_going_up.html Article: Tax
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Listening and Response Kendra Farmer CCJ2358-12_Week4 February 8‚ 2013 Everest University Online Listening and Response The best thing for a person to do when confronted with such a statement is to defuse it. They must by all means avoid escalating the conflict through inflammatory statements of their own. What the person should do is to remove the focus from the personal issues at hand. Instead‚ they should do what negotiators are told to do. They should focus on the problem‚ not on the
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THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH Some observers attribute nearly all of the world ’s maladies to excessive population growth. They claim that rapid population growth has at least three adverse effects on human well-being. First‚ it increases poverty--the number of people that are impoverished‚ the proportion of the community that is impoverished‚ and the severity of the impoverishment. Second‚ it increases environmental degradation--the misuse of natural resources--with adverse consequences
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The rapid revolution in technology affected our lifestyle drastically and led us to believe that our lives have changed for the better. Now communication with our distant friends or relatives‚ buying branded products or goods on-the-go and conducting business meeting is possible with just a single click. We believe that all these changes have made our lives more comfortable than before. However‚ there is a critical concern that is eating up most parents from inside‚ i.e.‚ whether technology is affecting
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Group No : Title : The negative effects of smartphones among teenagers. Hook line: - ‘Phone beeps’. The screen reads‚ “Hey sweetheart‚ come ovr 2 my bday party 2nyt at 7. C yah! XOXO” Gone were the days where people used to send out invitation cards or having conversations face to face since the advent of smartphones. General info : Definiton of smartphones : -A smart phone is an advanced communication gadget with advanced phone capabilities. Definiton of teenagers : -Aged between 13 and 25 -Today‘s
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: Critical response 1 In the ‘Great Human-Rights Reversal; The Democratic left has conceded human rights to the conservatives’ ‚ a Wall Street Journal of 10 May 2012‚ the author Daniel Henninger states that the human-rights agenda has downgraded since Barack Obama became president of the U.S. Henniger initiates that human-rights issues fade away from the political left into ‘its home’ on the right‚ to the neoconservatives and the evangelical Christian activists. According to the author‚ the administration
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