America and its people have relied on lethal injection, the electric chair, and hanging to teach criminals a lesson. The governmental process of putting criminals on death row and having them sit and wait until the day they die just does not sound right. The death penalty is not effective in any way because it does not teach people anything. In my opinion, the government makes itself seem like the bad guy because if one were to kill another and then get put on death row, it is as if the…
So how does an accident make anyone responsible for a pregnancy? As Valerie Tarico states in "I am proabortion, not just prochoice: 10 reasons why we must support the procedure and the choice", humans and contraception are not perfect. About 1 in 11 women still get pregnant although the use of contraception and 1 in 6 people engaging in sex result in pregnancy. Probably the best argument for pro abortion is rape and incest. One does not choose…
I believe the government’s role related to moral issues is to establish laws to protect the rights of those affected by the issue. Today, ethical issues in health care often escalate to a political matter due to the difference of moral values, as well as the unjust treatment of those affected by the issue. The legalization of abortion most likely…
When it comes to human rights, the issue of cultural relativism is widely discussed. Majority of the human rights literature encompasses the western and non-western argument on the right to deny service. As a result of these debates, comes the discussion of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, at first glance, seems like quite a reasonable argument towards safeguarding different cultural groups. However when we begin to analyze the cultural relativism theory, we come to find that it is not…
Government has been around for ages. Although there are many theories why government was first established, nevertheless we need government. We need government because of its beneficial purposes such as maintaining order, providing public services, and providing protection. Also through the film “Lord Of the Flies” we’ll see why we need government. One of the reasons we need government is because it maintains order. What this means is that the government makes the rules and keeps us…
This might be a familiar phrase for some but it is often used for conversations and ironically, it can also apply to debates. It’s an easy act especially if the debate gets heated. It seems these days the point of debates is to win and if you do then that makes him or her more intelligent and influential. This is often the influence of the media. The media teaches one to be strong and distinguished…
Most of the time, foreigners are nice to people living in the country they are travelling to. This is because they allready expect to socialize with other cultures and other races from the moment they leave their country. However, how tolerant they are, actually depends on the culture they come from, wether is a conservative culture or an open minded one, and how used to they are to interacting with other cultures. In some cases, it depends on their beliefs, and how it is expected from them to…
Carly Fiorina “I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to transform a nation,” remarked Barack Obama. This quote is used to show that Carly Fiorina doesn't just want to hold office, she wants to change this nation for the better. Mom and Dad, please vote for Carly Fiorina for president; she has a good background, great views on events of today, and her promises to this country are extraordinary. First, Carly’s background is very important for running in this race. Like the fact that…
I have said on multiple occasions that I pride myself on having a strong ethical base. I have thought of the phrase, “doing the right thing when no one is watching” as a measure of that claim. However, this class has me thinking how I determine what right and wrong is. Writing my code of ethics was not tremendously difficult, I feel I have a pretty good understanding of who I am and what is important. With that said, It has changed considerably over the last three years so it is interesting…
John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The State had passed the Butler act that made it unlawful to deny the Bible’s account of man’s origin while also banning the teaching of human evolution in public schools. It held the Bible to be of higher moral and religious value than Darwin’s theory and passed because the state’s legislature had been lobbied to pass laws against evolution…