Benefits of Gay Marriage in New York Just recently our nation has taken initiative into changing the gay rights that our nation lacks by repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that was established in 1993 by our former president Clinton. In the United States there are only five states‚ not including District of Columbia‚ that have legalized same sex marriage. Lawmakers ignore the fact that legalizing gay marriage has economical benefits. If the state of New York were to make gay marriage legal
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support gay marriage‚ I do believe that domestic partnership should remain allowable‚ giving a person the right to date and share their lives with whomever they so choose‚ but the sanctity of marriage should remain exclusively between one man and one woman. II. Body paragraph #1 – Topic Sentence #1 Before the passing of Prop 8‚ California was only the second state to allow same-sex marriage. In fact up until 2004 same-sex couples couldn’t wed anywhere in the country. Many gay couples
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to others. A good state of affairs is based off of a matter of opinion. What some consider “good” affairs; others may consider “poor”. The statement‚ there is no single objective sense of a good state of affairs holds truth. Philippa Foot’s Utilitarianism and the Virtues states‚ “ It can never be right to prefer a worse state of affairs to a better” (198). Foot is correct‚ however‚ this statement doesn’t say what specifically would be considered worse or better. If Jenny‚ the green thumbed outdoors
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would agree with the magistrate’s decision on framing the innocent man. The reason behind this agreement is that since the one man being killed is saving lives and saving chaos it makes it ethical‚ from a utilitarian standpoint. According to utilitarianism one must consider the consequences of a certain action. So in this case the magistrate must weigh the pros and cons of the decision to execute this man. The magistrate must be a utilitarian because he decided to kill the innocent man in an attempt
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that this would be a more ethically defensible approach.” Choose one side of this argument and use a utilitarian framework to argue in favour‚ using the framework to show the weakness in the opposite view Introduction Utilitarianism is a justification for free-market capitalism. It is a moral perspective that aims to achieve the greatest social benefit net of social cost or‚ more express informally as “one that maximizes utility” Both shareholder and stakeholders are
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One of the factors that need to be discussed is the well being and the interest of the new addition. New parents think that having a baby can resolve any marital problems but sometimes this backfires. The added stress of the process can affect a marriage. Many factors like money‚ failed attempts‚ social pressure‚ etc. can negatively impact the expecting family. The prospective parents need to understand that this will be a long and tedious process. It is very different than the process to conceive
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John Stuart Mills‚ in his paper Utilitarianism proposed the philosophy is "not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure‚ but pleasure itself‚ together with exemption from pain; and instead of opposing the useful to the agreeable or the ornamental..." However‚ Dickens did not find this harmony to be a possible outcome of the rigidity of logic‚ but found the imagination to be a more fertile ground for producing happiness. Dickens wrote of utilitarianism as it was applied during British industrialization
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In 1955‚ Frank Sinatra sang‚ “love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. You can’t have one without the other.” Frankie is right. When two people‚ any two people‚ are in love‚ they should be able to openly express their love for each other by getting married. However‚ not everyone sees it this way. Some think that if gays are allowed to get married‚ the already weakened institution would become even weaker. Others think that it would be a step towards giving people the ability to have
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Gay Marriage: How Jonathan Rauch Offers it as a Common Good The marriage-rights movement headed by gay rights activists has been a relevant issue on the American socio-political docket since 1970 following the Stonewall riots in New York City‚ New York in June of 1969. The riots sparked an initiative for gay people to join the movement of other marginalized groups in a quest to counteract widespread alienation to obtain the equal treatment and recognition they deserved. Today those activists
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5. Relativism Many different ideas have been given the name ‘relativism’‚ and the term has been used to pillory all sorts of views (sometimes for good reasons‚ sometimes for bad ones). It is mere posturing to say that you are for or against “relativism” unless you say what you mean by the term. Here I want mainly to discuss (and to criticize) a view I have encountered among students in philosophy courses‚ who say things like this: "What anyone believes is true for that person. What you believe
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