Factors For and Against Marijuana should be legalized in the United States. Reasons for legalization (ranked from strongest to weakest) 1. Medical benefits for terminal illnesses such as cancer. 2. Police and court resources would be freed to pursue more serious crimes. 3. The FDA could regulate the quality and safety of the drug. 4. This drug has fewer side effects that most currently legal narcotics. 5. Legalization would lower prices‚ thereby reducing crimes such as theft. 6
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Edmond Gettier is considered to be one of‚ if not the most important philosopher of 20th Century philosophy. Gettier’s argument against the traditional account of knowledge‚ aka "The Gettier Problem"‚ is knowledge defined as justified true belief. The idea of justified true belief declares that in order for a given proposition to be true‚ one must believe more than the relevant true proposition‚ but also to have justification for doing so. Gettier argues that the traditional conditions for knowledge
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recommended for food when decomposition is likely to occur. The infrared balance method is used for rapid routine work. The influence of water activity on food quality and spoilage is increasingl being recognized as an important factor. Water activity has a profound effect on the rate of many chemical reactions in foods and on the rate of microbial growth. Moulds and yeasts start to grow at aw between 0.7 and 0.8. Bacterial growth takes place when aw reached 0.8. Enzyme activity increases gradually between
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The cosmological arguments are inductive arguments based on an ‘a posteriori’ premise‚ which‚ despite having been introduced many years ago‚ continue to be prevalent today. An early example of the argument is within ‘Timaeus’‚ in which Plato proposed the idea that anything that has been created must be created by a cause. These arguments are intended to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism by explaining that God must be the first cause of the universe; the being setting the world into
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Civil Courts Magistrates Court The amount in dispute must be $150 000 or less QCAT Civil cases which involve small amounts of money less than $25 000 District Court Amounts from $150‚000 to $750‚000 in the District Court Supreme Courts $750’000 to unlimited amount in the Supreme Court Summary offences (Magistrate courts) Summary offences are matters that are be tried by a judge alone. If you are charged with a summary offence you do not have the right to have a trial by jury. Indictable
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Outline the ways in which rubbish can be said to have value in a consumer society. A consumer society is increasingly organized around consumption of goods and leisure‚ rather than the production of materials and services. It rests on consuming material goods as a supreme characteristic of value. Therefore individuals who do not consume are viewed as undervalued. Peoples consumer choices (taste and style) are seen to be indicators of who they are as a person and of their moves within the games
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In "In the Rubbish Tin" by "Apirana Taylor" an important symbol is the rain. In this story the rain is an important symbol as it represents the lives of both Ruth and Phillipa‚ their attitudes and feelings towards the world they live in. Additionally the rain represents the tears of desperation that fall from the very community they live in‚ drenched in its own sorrows and burdens. The rain is an important symbol as it represents the lives of both Ruth and Phillipa‚ their attitudes and feelings
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Jonsen‚ in his book Bioethics‚ claims "This field has established itself as an integral part of practical or applied philosophy and as a valuable adjunct to health policy and medical practice" (Jonsen 4). When dealing with the human body‚ ethics must be considered in order to preserve the value of human life. A highly
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human rights theories. Torture‚ and consequently its definition‚ has changed through time. A Roman lawyer once stated‚ ‘torture is the inquiry after truth by means of torment’ (cited in Peters‚ 1985). This definition is the foundation for the understanding of torture in modern times. It is now looked at not only in terms of physical pain‚ but mental stress and damage as well‚ (ScienceDaily‚ 2009). The United Nations Committee against Torture is responsible for monitoring states and ensuring that they
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Physicalism and Anti-Physicalism has been an on going argument for a good amount of time. Physicalism is said to be the view that the all things are physical or they rely on other objects that are physical. Many philosophers who are said to be or seem to be anti-physicalists have argued against this theory. Anti-physicalists stance on the matter is that anything that pertains to the mind or the conscious cannot depend on physicality nor is physicality. Nagel has a stance on his view of this matter
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