The Argument For and Against Gun Laws There are many issues in the media related to gun control laws. With the large number of shootings that have taken place this year and the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 adults many people say that we need tougher laws when it comes to purchasing a gun. Gun laws are different from state to state‚ but immediately following the devastating school shooting in Newton‚ Conn. there is a great division
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because there were so many dilemmas to evaluate. While analyzing it with my peers‚ it was common to find a consensus on one aspect‚ only to have it raise questions on another. On the other hand‚ Bernard Williams uses “Jim and the Indians” as an argument against the Utilitarian Approach (276)‚ however‚ most of the people I discussed it with defaulted to that very
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An Argument Against Gun Control Gun control has become more and more of a hot-button topic in the United States‚ especially after events like the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012‚ when many people questioned the necessity of the second amendment in this day and age. Indeed‚ upholding the second amendment continues to be a difficult prospect when it does not seem like these guns are being used for good. However‚ the vast majority of people not only use them responsibly‚ but also protect themselves and
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The ‘Hole’ Argument Against Substantivalism The ‘hole’ argument against substantivalism is a great argument created by Albert Einstein out of desperation when his general theory of relativity ran into obstacles. The ‘hole’ argument says that if the general theory of relativity is true and substantivalism is true‚ then for any model of the general theory of relativity representing a physically possible universe‚ there is a hole diffeomorphism of that model which represents a physically possible
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caretaking or even acting amorously toward one another (Brake 196-197). Specifically‚ Brake specifies that promises that conflict with certain moral requirements such as self-respect cannot be the subject of promises (Brake 197)‚ nor can eternal love be. What further specific promises can or cannot be made would require an empirical discussion of specific cases‚ which is beyond the purpose of this philosophical work. Thus‚ issues such as promising healthcare will not be discussed in this paper‚ but it will
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even an unborn human being‚ the mother is treating that life as a means to an end for herself‚ not as an end in itself. The killing of that human being is a means to an end for the happiness or convenience of the mother or her family. The other argument from the deontology position would be the fulfillment of duty. The mother has a duty to nurture her child while in the womb. The mother has a duty to
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inadequate compensation to 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
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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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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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Some people are strongly against vaccinating their children. They feel it is unsafe and can even lead to autism. There have been many reported cases where vaccines have actually done a lot of harm. As the amount of vaccines being administered to children has risen‚ so has the percentage of children with autism. This is ground-breaking evidence to the anti-vaccine movement. They assume that the more vaccines a child receives‚ the higher they go up on the autism spectrum. It is believed that a child
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