Brink offers a reply in two parts to Williams’ claim that Utilitarianism fails to give the appropriate moral weight to an agent’s personal point of view. First‚ Brink (1986: 431) denies that Utilitarianism fails to account for the individual preferences of the agent. He asserts that the Utilitarian recognises autonomy as a valuable component to be considered in Utilitarian calculus. That being so‚ he acknowledges that the principle of impartiality requires that any value to be attributed to an agent’s
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15). Many of the injustices against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are specific to them‚ for example land rights and the stolen generations issues. In response to these issues‚ the Federal Government has discussed the adoption of a Northern Territory National Emergency
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One main reason why life sentencing is so often contested against is the idea that continually harshly punishing a child for an action does not give chance for reform‚ for example “when a drug that has been prescribed for an illness fails to work‚ the best response is not always to give more of the same medicine
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Institution Name Student Name Roll No Topic: What are the main arguments for and against needle exchanges? The needle exchange program is a social service program which is aimed at allowing the drug syringe users to have free or cheap access to hypodermic needles. The idea underlying the program is to realize the concept of harm reduction i.e. to reduce the harm and to reduce the risk associated with the use of syringes. It is because the syringe users who use syringes for drug
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Everyone has their views and opinions on the death penalty. They are either for it or against it‚ but what does that really mean? Sixty-three percent of the population of America are for it because a human being killed another human and they think that it is only fair that the defendant also dies. Then the other thirty-seven percent are against it either because it may have been a loved one that had killed someone and they do not want to see their loved one be killed or they think that killing the
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Another argument that people make is that this music can make people violant.However it is their choce to be violant.The music isn’t responsable for this behavior.What ever happened to the saying you are responable for your own actions.That’s what these people are saying thought that it’s the music fualt that their son or duaghter is violant not their kids fualt.Now you can really see why this argument has nothing to do with music.Really what is all comes
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Some say it’s a great advancement in the field of biology‚ and others are against the topic completely‚ claiming it is ethically unjust. They believe that eventually it will spiral out of control‚ and humans will be cloned. They have no doubt that humans should never be cloned‚ and I completely agree. Cloning animals‚ and eventually humans‚ goes against the Bible completely. When scientists clone animals‚ they are ultimately trying to “play God”. Scientists say
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yet despite the USA’s constitution being derived from the Magna Carter‚ the UK has not followed suit in adopting a single document outlining the rules and regulations that the government must abide by. Throughout this essay I will assess arguments for and against the codification of the UK’s constitution. Critique of the options for change There have been numerous proposals as to what a codified constitution in the UK should contain. As it stands‚ the UK is a constitutional monarchy. The Monarch
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Three strikes raises important questions about how sentencing laws need to achieve public safety. How are such laws made? Who do they target? And why did Michael Reynolds and Mark Klaas start out as allies and end up as bitter political rivals. Over the last two decades (1980-2000)‚ the US prison population has increased 450%. California has led the nation in prison growth since the early 1980s‚ and it incarcerated a higher percentage of its population than any nation on earth by 1994. The same
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starting to change as public schools and universities in California‚ Washington‚ Michigan‚ Nebraska‚ Arizona‚ Connecticut‚ New Hampshire‚ Oklahoma‚ Florida‚ and Texas have banned affirmative action as a base for admissions (NCSL‚ 2014). The Case against Affirmative Action Why do we have affirmative action? Affirmative Action’s inception was from the outcome of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960’s. Affirmative action was intended to provide equal opportunities for members of minority
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