William Shakespeare the conspirators (Brutus‚ Cassius‚ Casca…) feel Julius Caesar isn’t the best ruler for Rome. They have a very horrid plan to get rid of him for good. The real question is were the conspirators justified or not? In Williams play‚ the conspirators are definitely justified in killing Caesar because of his ambitious power and physical weakness. He was not fit to be the ruler of Rome. During act one and act two Brutus and Cassius have a tragic plan to kill Caesar because they think
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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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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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Is it ever ethically justified to torture a terrorist to save millions of innocent lives‚ or is it always unjustifiable to torture a person? Imagine one summer day when all the news stations broadcast a message saying that a terrorist has planted a nuclear bomb in New York City and that the bomb will detonate in approximately one hour and two million civilians will parish. The news then says that the terrorist has been captured‚ but the only way to find out the key information to stop the detonation
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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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Was the U.S justified in their Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb? Before WWII‚ the United States strongly supported the idea of Isolationism‚ meaning they did not want to be involved in wars. As the time passed the United States found them turning away from neutrality by providing armed weapons to other nations. When other countries could not afford to buy products‚ the U.S could not afford to lose business‚ so they came up with a Lend-Lease Act and Cash and Carry. Both selling and lending items
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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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Ultimately‚ World War I could have been avoided had these nations not let their pride get in the way and were willing to negotiate their differences and interests. Since this war did not make the world a better place these sacrifices cannot be justified.
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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 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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