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    Legalizing Prostitution

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    Prostitution manages to utilize all three‚ thus confirming its dangerous nature. Human trafficking is done to force human beings into prostitution to make money; therefore legalizing prostitution will only further encourage human trafficking. Richard Poulin‚(Professor at the University of Montreal)‚ found that in countries where prostitution is legal; the majority of the prostitutes are foreigners with no papers‚ making them

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    Concept of ethical relativism Ethical relativism is the theory that there are no universalized moral standards to apply to all people all the time. The relativity of ethics refers to the ethics may be different in different societies. The same situation and behavior may be morally acceptable in one society but morally unacceptable in another. However‚ this theory is rejected by most ethicists. First of all‚ some claim that while the moral practices of societies may differ‚ the fundamental moral

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    define and compare and contrast ETHNOCENTRISM and CULTURAL RELATIVISM. Discuss how you have experienced OR witnessed both concepts in our American Society. Ethnocentrism is viewing your own culture as more superior than any other culture‚ that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own. Ethnocentrism can lead to cultural misinterpretation and it often distorts communication between human beings. + while cultural relativism is "the concept that the importance of a particular cultural

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    Reasons For Legalizing Prostitution 1. Victimless Crime: Prostitution is considered a victimless crime as long as the people involved are consenting adults and no one is hurt. Prostitution does not imply there is always a victim. 2. Free Choice: Consenting adults should have freedom of choice as they see fit‚ as long it is does not restrict the freedoms of others. 3. Free Sex is Legal: Having sex without a fee is legal‚ therefore charging for something that is not illegal should not

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    Legalizing Abortion

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    abortion. B. Abortion can lead to a decrease in population which may endanger the economy of a country. C. Legalizing abortion does not guarantee the survival of the woman after abortion. V. Responding to opposing view A. In Kenya‚ adoption in Kenya has a long process and restrictions. B. A decrease in population is also a positive impact to the country. C. Legalizing abortion reduces the unsafe abortions hence‚ gives hope to the woman aborting. VI. Conclusion A. Summary

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    What is moral relativism? Relativism is the position that all perspectives are similarly legitimate and the individual figures out what is valid and relative for them. Relativism hypothesizes that fact is distinctive for various individuals‚ not just that diverse individuals accept diverse things to be valid. While there are relativists in science and arithmetic‚ moral relativism is the most well-known assortment of relativism. Nearly everybody has heard a relativist trademark: What’s ideal for

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    Cultural Relativism Essay

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    This premise of cultural relativism shows prefigure of moral relativism. Moral relativism can be generally grouped into three categories; (1) descriptive moral relativism‚ (2) normative moral relativism‚ and (3) meta-ethical moral relativism. Descriptive relativism‚ according to Frankena‚ is the idea ‘that the basic ethical beliefs of different people and societies are different and even conflicting’ [1973:109]. The second form of ethical relativism conceives the idea that ‘what is really right or

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    Ethical Relativism Cannibalism‚ what do you think of it? Is it morally correct? Does the theory of ethical relativism support it or does it knock it down? Throughout this paper I am going to evaluate the pros and cons of ethical relativism for a case concerning cannibalism. An American man by the name of Daniel went to South America‚ for the reasons of writing a book on it and publishing it in the United States‚ to study a native tribe and to try to become part of it. While Daniel was studying

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    Editorial Marijuana

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    2013 Ann O’Phelan LA 280 Perspective Journalism Marijuana? What’s the Big Deal About? The big debate in California is wether the state should legalize marijuana‚ and then tax it to bring in revenues to help California climb out of the mountain of a debt it got in. Although Marijuana is deemed as a gateway drug that can lead into harder drugs‚ legalizing Marijuana will help In the past twelve months‚ only two states have legalize marijuana for recreational use‚ and California was not one of

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    In this paper I will argue‚ that we ought to make recreational drugs legalized. By not legalizing recreational drugs it doesn’t maximize utility in society and it is also a violation of the liberty principle (Mill 2014‚ 295). The term drug often refers to a soft drug including Marijuana‚ which I want legalized or a harsh drug including heroin‚ which I prefer not to be legalized. For my first argument I will defend my thesis using Mills Liberty principle as well as the principle of utility. The principle

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