self-reliance argument let alone ethical egoism. If John‚ an elderly man‚ was walking in the park and had a fall‚ would he be better off if Jill‚ a bystander‚ just continued on her way? She was running late to work and could easily tend to her own needs leaving John on the ground moaning in pain. The second premise‚ “We ought to do what will make everyone better off.” may be true‚ but it does not support ethical egoism. It is really a utilitarian claim; utilitarians think that one ought to do what will
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spreading democracy to other smaller nations in the Pacific Ocean. This idea that the people in Hawaii and the Philippines should be governed by the United States is directly from the interpretation that they could not govern themselves. Due to these theories about the people in the Pacific Ocean‚ many American Imperialists believed that the United States government should have continued in their territorial expansion of the Pacific
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This motivated police departments to initiate the zero-tolerance policy‚ which encouraged the use of aggressive police tactics on minor crimes (Sheppard‚ 2002). When compared to the "broken windows" theory‚ the zero-tolerance policy ironically has the same effect. However‚ the tactics are entirely different. Community policing encourages a partnership with citizens to require less use of arrest‚ and more creative responses to certain minor problems
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As an undocumented Phd from Harvard‚ I am now working in a Chinese gaming company producing some water down garbage. I can’t believe people as lazy as we are are start working hard. I’m desperately wanting to talk to some bright minded people. There is nothing liberal here. You can’t find translation of Mises or Nozick. The “right” in here tends to believe in democracy (aka redistribution of central power‚) social justice and degeneracy‚ while the left believe in slaughter those who have more property
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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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Censorship of Children’s Literature – An argument against Some of the greatest novels for children and young adults are under attack. Due to what some deem as “inappropriate” language or certain topics‚ countless books have either been censored or banned entirely from schools and libraries. This is not just something that happens abroad‚ but in America as well. That’s right. America. This is home where freedom of speech is one of our oldest and most highly held ideals. An all too common pastime
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drug. Some would want to prevent further suffering from their own physical pain or suffering of loved ones that see the patient decaying everyday. Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or an irreversible coma. The controversial topic of euthanasia is highly debated throughout the globe on a variety of different levels. The best
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women and is solicited by even more men. Prostitution should be decriminalized because we are paying too high a financial and social cost for the ineffective enforcement of laws against it. The money and the law enforcement personnel freed by legalizing prostitution could be better spent if used to protect citizens against violent crimes. Prostitution has not always been a crime and there are still a few communities in the West‚ particularly in Nevada‚ where houses of prostitution operate as legal
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One main reason why life sentencing is so often contested against is the idea that continually harshly punishing a child for an action does not give chance for reform‚ for example “when a drug that has been prescribed for an illness fails to work‚ the best response is not always to give more of the same medicine
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are costs in converting. Lots of money will be spent by companies trying to switch everything over. Also‚ is the metric system actually sensible to use? The answer is yes‚ and America should use the metric system. There is a multitude of evidence against the metric system. Books have even been written about how wrong it is. The author of one such book‚ Marciano‚ asks people if the metric system is actually easier to use. He explained that “in nature we don’t think about dividing things by 10‚ do we
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