Law and Social Work 1. Are personal laws justified in secular India? Give reasons for your answer. Secularism in India mainly implies parallel treatment of all religions by the State. Secularism in India acknowledges religious laws as binding on State and thereby equivalent cooperation of State in various religions‚ which is different from western concept of secularism.[ ][ ] Here the question of personal laws being contradictory to the idea of secularism is not a point at all because the way
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Were the colonists morally justified in declaring independence? British government actions were unfair to the colonists‚ and the colonists had the right to rebel against British rule resulting in the American Revolution for the fight for independence. Reasons colonists justified for independence was taxation policies were unfair‚ no representation in the Parliament‚ and many passed acts and laws. The unfair policies‚ acts‚ and laws were immoral and corrupt to the colonist’s rights that lead to an
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When Advertisements Lie? Symbiosis Institute of Business Management‚ Pune MBA –I‚ Division A Authored by: Ashish Unadkat (35110) Aadhar Agarwal (35130) Malvika Vakil (35124) Shilpa Minj (35144) Tishya Relia (35149) Yash Sanghvi (35152) Contents 1. Introduction..................................................................................................... 3 2. Advertising Standards Council of India ......................................................... 3 3. Legal issues in advertising
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World War I (WWI) began on July 28‚ 1914‚ when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip‚ leader of a radical group whose purpose was to end foreign rule over Bosnia and Serbia. Austria-Hungary used the assassination as justification to launch a war on Serbia‚ blaming them for the radical groups’ actions. This regional conflict sucked in most of the great countries of the world. The
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The sailor dies and the cook butchers and eats him. Pi and his mother try to stop him. He kills Pi’s mother and throws her head towards Pi. Later Pi fights the cook and kills him in a moment of revenge and self preservation Was Pi’s act morally justified? As moral arguments are best proven by analogies‚ let us consider four people in the same situation but a different setting. Four strangers (namely A‚B‚C‚D) are stuck in a lifeboat. A has a gun and decides to kill B (who was already injured
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The Assassination of Malcolm X Malcolm Little also known as Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21‚ 1965 in New York City. Black Muslims are said to be the accomplices of his murder. One of their members‚ Thomas Hagan‚ was charged with shooting Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom. Two other men were convicted with Hagan for the murder of X. The assassination of Malcolm X was unjustified because he was an influential civil rights activist that helped African Americans in their journey
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Customize Your Death: Why Some Forms of Euthanasia may be Ethically Justified Out of the study of religion‚ science and philosophy arise questions like‚ “who owns our lives?” or more strikingly‚ “can we and should we be allowed to take our own lives?” At first thought‚ suicide springs to mind‚ and the scenes of despair‚ depression and distress follow. Then‚ one might ask why voluntary death is associated with gloom when it may not necessarily be true. Indeed‚ to some people it is quite the opposite;
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school” definition of knowledge is defined as awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation‚ but the work of Edmund L. Gettier discusses the idea of knowledge being an unobtainable concept. In Gettier’s article aptly titled “Is Justified true belief knowledge”‚ he talks about justification through correspondence truth and experience. Gettier attacks the process of justification with the use of logical proofs demonstrating the law of non-contradiction which states that it is impossible
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The assassination of Osama Bin Laden was justified because he was a terrorist and had murdered over 2‚977 people during the 9/11 attack. However‚ some believed that he was Muslim and believed in peace. Osama Bin Laden was held accountable for a lot of deadly acts of terrorism. Also‚ terrorism is illegal in any country. Bin was apart terrorist group called “Al – Qaida “. In 1988 Bin Laden created a new group called “Al – Qaida“ (“the base “) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism
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The United States’ decision to bomb two cities of Japan‚ which we’re Nagasaki and Hiroshima‚ was not at all justified. Many people know that Japan deliberately attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941‚ in order to strategically weaken the American Naval Base. However‚ the United States’ decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to push Japan to surrender the war . The bombing was unjustified because the U.S. military: targeted heavily populated civilian cities‚ deliberately
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