Nicole Saunders Management Communication ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST MARIJAUANA LEGALIZATION ARGUMENT FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA As of December 1‚ 2013 twenty-one states have decriminalized marijuana possession‚ with seven states allowing legal medical use of the drug and two states allowing legal use of the drug without medical necessity. Cannabis remains on the federal drug schedule today as a Schedule I substance since 1970‚ with our society constantly
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out of animal testing. Although in some cases animals maybe abused‚ there have been so many discoveries with medicine with testing these drugs on animals. Until we find a better way of testing drugs I believe animal testing is ethical. Some arguments against
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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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the workers‚ or the existence of privately owned prisons. I won’t even begin to argue the morality of those practices; instead‚ I will argue the morality of our prison industrial complex. I will first lay out what I feel are the most compelling arguments for prison abolitions. Then I will address the main critiques and concerns facing the movement toward restorative justice. The first concern is one pointed out by Angela Davis in "Are Prisons Obsolete"1. She states "prison… functions ideologically
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In talking about stratification of genders and sexism‚ Okin proposes that the Rawlsian conception of justice is the first contemporary theory to consider family as playing “…a fundamental role in the stages in which [our] conception of justice is acquired.” (Okin 228). Thus‚ in order to have a just society‚ we must have a just family. Feminist writer Card proposes that marriage‚ the institution that forms the basis for the traditional family structure‚ is “…itself is an evil‚ to the extent that it
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One that’s become inflamed among others in recent years is women’s rights‚ but more specifically‚ abortion rights or laws. To truly understand the argument for or against abortion‚ I will examine perspectives of abortion from religious views‚ The religious people of this country stand strong against abortion. Catholics are a huge group that stands against abortion. The campaign called The March for Life is the Catholics’ primary way to dissuade people from abortion. Their goal is to “make the world
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This translates over to those doing the torture and those against it. Those that conduct the torture believe that they are obtaining valuable information where as those that oppose it see it as a large violation of human rights. In the above articles information was used form both scholarly and non scholarly articles. All of the articles helped to provide information about the use of torture and if it is‚ or isn’t‚ necessary. They all helped to prove that when talking about torture there is no black
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both advocated a crude son of eugenics‚ recommending infanticide for deformed infants … they also supported euthanasia in cases of terminal or incurable illness. Each‚ however‚ rejected the notion of suicide. To Aristotle‚ suicide was an offense against the stale‚ because man owed a civic duty to the state… Sophocles was probably the first to accept suicide as a general remedy for life’s hardships and burdens. The Stoics readily embraced this position and tolerated suicide for a variety of reasons
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Give arguments for or against the proposition that cloning is “playing God”. First I would like to point out What is Cloning? According to Medline‚ WebMD‚ and other resources cloning is defined by “the processes used to create the exact genetic replica of another cell‚ tissue‚ or organism”‚ a copy of the original cell‚ with the same genetic formation makeup as the original cell. Which is referred to as a clone. There are three main types of cloning: 1. Gene Cloning which implies
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Assess the arguments for and against the view that sociology is not and will never be a scientific discipline. (33 marks) A science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. If we use this definition it can be argued that sociology does fall into the bracket of being a science. There are two theoretical arguments set up by positivists and interpretivists. Positivists
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