WATER & BIODIVERSITY Pakistan is facing many problems now a days but is also spreading awareness and prevention by celebrating different days.One of the upcoming event is : ‘‘INTERNATIONAL DAY ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY’’ I would take start with WATER.If there were no water on water on Earth‚there would be no plants‚no animals‚no human beings etc.All living things from the tiniest insects to the tallest trees need water to survive.Allah has granted us a number of facilities like food to
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bomb in Stockholm were located that would save thousands
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Save the tigers Someday‚ we may never see tigers again because tigers are on the critically endangered list‚ which is why the National Zoo was celebrating Global Tiger Day. This is happening because of poaching and habitat changes. Large plantations have replaced a lot of tiger habitat in several tropical range countries. Tigers occupy only around 7 percent of their historic range. The current wild tiger population is at as few as 3‚200 tigers‚ including only about 400 Sumatran tigers‚ which are
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the pleasure of their customers through the use of their services and keeps their activities private and secure (Lecture). Of course the reason why it still continues to run is due to the large amounts of revenue that is generated from their customers. Unlike other businesses‚ Ashley Madison does not follow a moral guideline like one would expect. So for this large company‚ based on the idea of utilitarianism‚ it doesn’t really matter for a minority number of people to be negatively affected by their
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the core issues surrounding private prisons in the areas of cost-effectiveness‚ recidivism‚ and the special needs of specific groups of inmates‚ including the elderly and mentally challenged. It explores problems related to the prison industry in general and whether privatization is the solution to these problems. PRISON PRIVATIZATION 3 An Assessment of Prison Privatization Reid (2008) notes that proponents of private prisons tout these facilities
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beliefs. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you‚ is it morally right to pleasure the masses even if it causes harm to some people which is Mills Utilitarianism theory or do you do what is logically and morally right according to universal law like Kant’s deontological theory. In Bernard Williams experiment against Utilitarianism Jim is put in a very difficult situation with only two options and can either not kill any of the Indians or kill one of them himself. In this scenario their
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Utilitarianism: Bentham – Hedonic Calculus Bentham was a hedonist – he believed that pleasure is good in itself‚ and other things are good in so far as they bring about pleasure and the absence of pain. “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters‚ pain and pleasure.” You could work out which action to perform by calculating which option brought about the greatest amount of pleasure: Duration – how long does the pleasure last? Remoteness – how distant is the pleasure?
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Kantianism and Utiliarianism. So far‚ it seems to be the best moral theory we have talked about because it seems to take parts from both Kantianism and Utilitarianism; neither of which seemed like the “correct” moral theory. Virtue ethics is more concerned with the aim of humans. On the other hand‚ Kantianism dealt with intent‚ and Utilitarianism was about maximizing happiness for the greatest number. Virtue ethics seems to be more practical than theoretical like the previous moral theories we talked
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Consequentialists are a group of philosophers who asses whether an act is right or wrong based on the consequences of the action. There are different types of consequentialism including: ethical egoism‚ act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. These three branches of consequentialism will be discussed later in this paper. A supererogatory act is something that is good but is not obligatory; these acts involve rendering aid to others that go above moral requirement. Consequentialists claim that
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Simply put‚ Utilitarianism states that one should act on what would bring the greatest happiness or benefit to the greatest amount of people. Therefore‚ a utilitarian would agree to push two heaviest passengers overboard to save the six. While it violates our morals to kill two people‚ a utilitarian would explain their choice with the integrity objection. In the situation of the lifeboat‚ one is faced with a situation that does not present a perfect outcome. However‚ a utilitarian would say that
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