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    gives us the choice to do good or evil and relates to the virtue that every person has. In Plato’s "Meno"‚ Socrates argues with Meno over what virtue really is and the true definition. At one point‚ they discuss that being virtuous is "find joy in beautiful things." The go on at length arguing what is beautiful and what is good. They also cover whether or not people actually do desire bad things or if all people desire good things. At the end they concur that people do not desire bad things

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    theory as to how the moon was formed. Many people today still have many questions about the moon such as‚ “Why do we only see one side of it?” “Why does the moon

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    your body‚ but they are also a major cause of families being torn apart. Addicting drugs like Methamphetamines are the reason why many drug users find themselves years later with no money‚ no career‚ no friends and abandoned by their own families. Your willing to spend your last dime on Methamphetamines‚ forsaking every other financial duty‚ you’d be willing to do things way out of your character to get more Methamphetamines bringing shame and embarrassment to your family and to yourself. Morally

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    Why Do People Take Drugs?

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    Why do you think people take drugs? Do you know anyone with an addiction-prone personality? What does the medical literature indicate about addictive personalities? I think people take drugs because there trying to escape or forget about something in their lives. And when they take drugs they don’t have to worry about anything that is bothering them. They also don’t have to face anything that is bothering them because there not ready or don’t wont to so they get high. Medical literature indicates

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    Why Do People Start Gangs

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    Why Do People Start Gangs? I wanted to learn more about gangs because I was wanting to figure out why they start them‚ and for what reasons. Learning about gangs would show other things in life outside of what I do every day around my home and school. Also‚ I wonder what types of people are in gangs. Lastly‚ I wanted to know what leads people to commit crimes and do what they do while in a gang. According to my novel‚ people would start gangs because of family issues. In my book a kid named

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    1.5 Rational Radicalism..............Why Do People Become Terrorists? Most studies of the causes of Islamism offer a grievance based explanation implicitly rooted in functionalist social psychology accounts of mass behaviour‚ which view collective action as derived from exogenous structural strains that create individual frustration and motivation for deviant social behaviour. Structural strains such as modernization‚ industrialization‚ economic crisis cause psychological discomfort which in turn

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    than men are. Being bullied is a reason why a lot of people commit suicide‚ people feel like that the pain being inflicted on them will never stop‚ and no one could possibly do anything to stop that so they feel the need to harm themselves(cutting) and even committing suicide. Some people even go out of their way to harm everyone that they felt hurt them and the people they felt like could’ve helped but didn’t‚ like school shootings.The majority of people that does a lot of shootings at schools have

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    Pygmalion Effect: Good People Doing Bad Things “Mother of two kills man who earlier hurt children.” Reports like these are seen every day. These headlines often leave people thinking‚ “Why do good people sometimes do bad things?” This question has everyone from scientists to citizens wondering. The Pygmalion and Golem effects help answer this. These self-fulfilling prophecies tell why people do certain things to meet the standards of others. When faced with pressure‚ their reputation on the line

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    Why Do People Keep Pets

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    People have said‚ “The only creature to love someone more than it loves itself‚ is a dog.” The love doesn’t stop there; cats‚ hamsters‚ rabbits‚ and many other animals have unconditional love towards you. From 1970 to 2010‚ the number of cats and dogs in households has risen from 67 million to an estimated 164 million. Of these statistics‚ there are 78.2 million dogs and 86.4 million cats owned nationwide (humansociety). Why do so many people keep pets? There are numerous reasons for why people choose

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    Some people may say I’m not as optimistic as others‚ I think it’s how you look at me. I’m not one to jump at any challenge‚ but if I think it will be worth it in the end I will try my hardest. To try to change this theory in others‚ how they look at things‚ is a little harder. People get set in their ways and get lazy. In fact this generation is set in their way of thinking‚ because it seems everything is just handed to them. But to push them to want to achieve and succeed and making them understand

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