Why Shouldn’t We Be Selfish? Selfishness is an act that humans innately have implanted within them. Ayn Rand being a rational egoist had many moral beliefs‚ one being especially about selfishness. She believed that: "Self-interest‚ properly understood‚ is the standard of morality and selflessness is the deepest immorality."( Ayn Rand 279) This basically emphasizes that you should see oneself‚ as an end to oneself. A person’s own life and happiness are their highest values‚ and
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Helping people is undoubtedly an honorable thing to do in some instances; however‚ by no means is it morally obligated all the time. Therefore‚ I negate the resolution “Resolved: Individuals have a moral obligation to assist people in need.” Individual (The New Oxford American Dictionary‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2001): A single human being as distinct from a group‚ class‚ or family Moral Obligation (Black’s Law Dictionary): a duty that is based only on one’s conscience and that is not legally
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Why do we need the UN? The United nations officially came into existence on the 24th of October 1945 when the official charter was ratified by the 51 original member states. This day has continued to be celebrated every year as ’UN Day’. The UN is composed of a total of 192 people‚ all of whom represent different nations who together‚ rectify contemporaneous issues which the individual nations may be unable to resolve on their own‚ and require collective assistance- which they will receive
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Written assignment - "The fun they had" "The fun they had" is a science-fiction short story written in 1951 by Isaac Asimov. The text has its focal points on the human behavior as a response to the development of technology - human dependency of technology and how it has become a necessity in order to live a normal life. The text expresses‚ how the progression of technology have lead to the closed and therefore more "efficient" school system that Margie is a part of. As she reads the "real" book
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Why do we laugh? Where did laughter come from? Is laughter good for our health? These questions come out of my mind whenever I laugh or hear someone laughing. Laughter is to the heart. It raises spirits‚ eases life’s challenges‚ refreshes and heals. We may came from different countries‚ have different cultures and beliefs‚ but we are all human‚ and share the universal language of laughter. The magic of laughter is that it is contagious. We don’t need to know or understand what we are laughing about
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Why do we sleep? Time is money. But every day we spend 8 out of 24 hours to sleep. In such a busy world we live in‚ those precious 8 hours could be spend for a lot of things. However we are all acknowledge at some point that sleep makes us feel refresh. After a good night sleep‚ we are able to concentrate better and feel happier. The difference between sleep makes us feel better and not having sleep makes us feel terrible explain why sleep might be necessary. Until today‚ despite our advanced technology
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retaliation against foreigners. Mehdi Hasan writes in‚ Why I Could Never Hate America‚ that it wasn’t necessarily the people in America that sparked Anti-Americanism‚ it was the way officials felt they had the right to question those who seemed suspicious‚ and it was up to them who deemed those who fit within that category. Currently‚ America is seen to other countries as shutting out the rest of the world‚ especially with the recent President-Elect‚ Donald Trump. The talk of a wall being built gives
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What would life be if civil rights movement had never happened? African Americans would still be discriminated against and segregation might have expanded to other areas. Without the civil rights movement from the 1950s and 1960s‚ education would not be the same‚ segregation would still exist in neighborhoods and cities‚ employment would be difficult for African Americans. In terms of education‚ school would probably still be segregated under the “separate but equal” law‚ which clearly when it was
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Why we read literature The word literature means ‘acquaintance with letters.’ With literature we can put anything and everything into words and play it like a video for someone else to see. It is a profession where words are arranged in such a way that they describe‚ feelings‚ emotions‚ experiences etc. it describes society and the people living in it‚ what they think of it and what they want it to be. There are many reasons to why we read literature. We could read it for information which is to
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Why had international peace collapsed by 1939? There had been a series of failures that led to the destruction of international peace by 1939. The cause for world war two was because of the invasion of Poland by Germany. Britain and France agreed that after the Munich pact‚ if Germany were to invade Poland ‚ they would start a war against Hitler. However Hitler could have been stopped a long time before the invasion of Poland however due to the international peace failures he did not stop and
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