Warren’s argument is convenient for abortion advocates‚ if embryos and fetuses are less than people‚ then it may be morally permissible to end their life before birth. However‚ Warren’s premise and argument is flawed‚ and she fails to see the indications of personhood outside of consciousness. Primarily‚ moral personhood is not defined by an ability to reason‚ it is instead defined by a state of being. Philosopher Francis Beckwich‚ discusses moral personhood in relation to abortion when he discusses
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American Researchers in the late 1920s conducted an experiment the goal of this experiment was to keep five people awake for thirty days using a new gas stimulant. The test subjects were put into a sealed chamber. The researchers carefully watched the subject’s oxygen levels to make sure the gas did not kill them. The researchers did not have cameras to monitor the subjects. All they had was microphones and small thick glass windows. The chamber had books and beds to sleep on but no sheets or covers
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alteration; as a foreign seed sown in an alien soil is wont to be overcome and die out into the native growth‚ so this kind does not preserve its own quality but falls away and degenerates into the alien type. - Plato‚ Republic 497 c I. Introduction In the sixth book of the Republic‚ Plato describes a philosophic soul as an exotic seed planted in strange soil. Because the soil is foreign to the seed‚ its growth is stunted‚ if not overwhelmed‚ by the forces alien to its nature. The context of
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professional [2]. Medical or surgical abortions performed in the first trimester do not significantly affect later infertility‚ ectopic pregnancy‚ spontaneous abortion‚ or preterm or low-birth-weight deliveries‚ according to The Kaiser Family Foundation ’s statistics on abortion [3]‚ and shows no greater risk of breast cancer‚ according to research from the National Cancer Institute [8]. There is about 1 death per 100‚000 legal abortions and the risk of complications from the abortions are rare‚ about
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Against One of the arguments against legalization of drugs is what we have all grown up hearing which is “drugs are bad”. This reason has been said throughout most of our life and is what we learn in schools. However‚ legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco have caused more harm than illegal drugs. Another argument against legalization is that it would send mix signals to children. Drugs are bad and “just say no” have been sayings we have all learned growing up. However‚ if drugs were suddenly legal
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Universal healthcare is a heavily debated topic‚ and there are strong arguments both for it and against it. "I’m An American Doctor‚ And I’m Against Universal Health Care" by Dr. Kalpana DePasquale is an editorial that provides many arguments against the idea the U.S. should have healthcare similar to Canada. "Universal health Care was the Centennial Generation’s Greatest Achievement" by The Globe and Mail is an editorial in favor of universal healthcare‚ and compares the system in Canada to the
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100 years to the great depression and FDR. The arguments for and against the minimum wage go back just as far and tend to be emotionally charged. But does this policy‚ established during the great depression still make sense today? As the economy enters a new‚ global‚ era does the minimum wage help or hurt us? Through a review of arguments both for and against the minimum wage‚ and a review of the research that supports or disproves those arguments this paper hopes to present a balanced non-emotional
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(Anon.‚ 2013)This essay is to draw attention towards protection against the use of animals in medical experiments. Animal
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women and is solicited by even more men. Prostitution should be decriminalized because we are paying too high a financial and social cost for the ineffective enforcement of laws against it. The money and the law enforcement personnel freed by legalizing prostitution could be better spent if used to protect citizens against violent crimes. Prostitution has not always been a crime and there are still a few communities in the West‚ particularly in Nevada‚ where houses of prostitution operate as legal
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become significantly more popular with the advancement of neuroscience. As Papineau highlights “we find it very difficult to absorb this lesson” (Papineau 2010: 5). One argument against this belief is the ‘philosophical zombies argument’ which purports to cause problems for reductive physicalism. In this essay‚ I will argue against this counterargument. Reductive physicalism tries to solve the what Chalmers calls‚ “the hard problem of consciousness” (Chalmers 2010). This tries to answer the question
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