Choice theory

actually decreases the amount of happiness one experiences, and I will show why one should satisfice rather than maximize. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz presents the pitfalls of maximizing, with one being counterfactual thinking. Schwartz also introduces the concept of hedonic adaptation, which provides reasoning to why there is little importance to the choice that maximizers spend much time and energy with. To further show why satisficing is the better option, I will argue that…

I agree with Thomson’s example of a woman wanting to get an abortion to avoid a nuisance being “indecent”, but that is not up to me to decide. Being pro-choice means to be for any decision that someone wants to make regarding their pregnancy, and not for a decision as long as it doesn’t go against what I believe is right. Although in this case, I may not agree that that’s a viable reason to want to get an abortion, because it is not my business or my body, it is not my decision to make. I also…

pro-life stands Cooper vocalizes her support for legal abortion. In theory the two authors should disagree on most points, but this fails to be the case. Both argue that the main problem camouflaged within this debate remains the social injustice society inflicts upon its mortal pawns. Both find faults with the entire abortion debate not just the opposing opinion, and both spend time criticizing both the pro-life and the pro-choice arguments. Many of the critiques make the same points and most…

Euthanasia and Abortion are two widely spoken and discussed about themes that also recur frequently in political debates. Like for any topic in the world, everyone has their own opinion on these themes; but on this particular subject, people’s opinions tend to fall into two categories: those who are in favour because they believe it is right, and the others who are firmly against it due to the fact that they are convinced it is a wrong doing. The question is who are we to decide what can be…

While the modern vision of scientific civilization, developed by Sir Francis Bacon in 17th century England, and the ways science is actually practiced in the world today both pursue objective truth, the modern vision and today’s scientific practices differ in their methods of pursuing truth. The modern vision and the ways science is actually practiced today both pursue objective truth in order to benefit humanity. The modern vision of science pursued truth using experience, which differed from…

Immorality of Abortion In 1973, throughout Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court decided that a woman's choice of abortion was legally more logical than that of the child inside of the womb. Since then many new medical and scientific improvements have been made which would pose as a threat to this argument. F. M. Kamm in her novel Creation and Abortion says it this way, “Legislation was lax then, and so the theory is that those who proposed the fourteenth amendment, citizens of their times, would…

archaeological sites…by lending their analytical expertise to collectors, art museums, and auction houses” (Killick:246). That, including the idea that most post processual archaeologists believe that “our own interpretation of the past involves choices that depend less on an objective assessment of the data than on the feelings and opinions of the researchers and of the clients who they aim to please” (Thames and Hudson:32). An example being, in the Smithsonian Institution, it was nearly…

A. Influences on scientists and publishers---they are very human B. Global warming or natural variability? C. Uses and abuses of science---thoughts of many people D. Dancing Reality---Our human interface E. Wisdom and Folly---from around the world and across the ages F. Freedom and Joy---The Buddha and Maude My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. Friedrich Nietzsche Simplicity is the ultimate…

In a special report of the December 1989 American Medical News, Delia O’Hara rightly noted: ‘Much is written concerning abortion; little of it is about the physicians faced with the decision of whether to do this procedure.’ In 43 years of legal abortion, feminist and legal progressive narratives have dominated analysis of American abortion providers. This paper argues that the 1973 Supreme Court Roe V. Wade ruling, which declared state laws banning abortion unconstitutional, was of little…

as colours that are darker, like brown or black, are usually perceived by the human eye as foods that are off or dead. However, many of the subjects may have been familiar and are fond of the taste of Chicos, therefore chose this has their lolly of choice. However, if the lollies could have been tasted, the outcome may have been more…