Core issues in ethics

In this paper, I will argue that torturing terrorists is the wrong thing to do. First argument that I would discuss about is that torturing a terrorist is wrong because those who we torture may end up being innocent. Suppose you have captured a man who is torture to gain information and found guilty and thrown to jail for many years and later found out that he is innocent. That means that you have committed a crime. You can’t be so sure if a victim is guilty. You cannot assume that the victim…

definition of virtue. He believed that virtue is both intellectual and moral. On the intellectual aspect, he believed that virtue takes time and experience. However, on the moral aspect, he believed that virtue came from making it a habit (Nicomachean Ethics p. 71). For example, “men become builders by building houses” (p. 73). The question that arises from this definition is how does one act virtuously? To become virtuous, one must act in the mean between two extremes, the excess and the…

Euthanasia, is known as assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide, doctor-assisted dying, and a more not so used term mercy killing, means to take deliberate action of intention of ending a life to relieve suffering (Nordqvist, 2015). You can’t feel the pain and unpleasantness of that pain. Pain so terribly horrible that they want to be put out of misery and still have some dignity. Where it only leave them with the choice of suffering or taking the pain away. The little bit of…

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool,"-Albert Camus. The Human Condition represents the ideas, problems, and abilities that people have. People can be capable of great love; but also are capable of hate, torture, rape, and war. The main concern is if humans are innately good or bad. Are humans both good and bad, born with one or the other, or taught to be good or bad? In the fiction dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding,…

Sirius Black once said, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” Good and evil oppose the meanings of one another. Often in this world, people describe others by either all the positive qualities or by the negative qualities, forgetting that nothing in the world is perfect or completely imperfect. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, uses numerous themes and symbols throughout the novel; however, none serve a…

Law Of Attraction: Unlocking Your Happy Life By Wenny Yap | Submitted On March 01, 2012 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Wenny Yap Whether you want to live a long life or if you only…

The Butterfly Effect… What is the Butterfly Effect? The butterfly effect is “the idea, used in chaos theory, that a very small difference in the initial state of a physical system can make a significant difference to the state at some later time”, that would be the definition according to Dictionary.com. This means that everything that Tybalt did affected the way he is killed and why he died the way he did. Tybalt’s death should put blame on Tybalt himself for the following reasons, Tybalt kills…

aware that the lady was a morphine addict who went through withdrawal. Her withdrawal caused her to be quite feisty. She was a courageous woman who suffered from withdrawal as a result of not wanting to let morphine murder her. Jem’s blindness to her issue explains why he was glad for the month to be over and frustrated when Jem received a box from her since he wanted absolutely nothing to do with her.“Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect…

In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, there are a lot of themes that can be found and applied to the real world, even though this book is a fantasy book. These themes can help you deal with hardships in your life. An example of one theme would be the theme of love. The theme I will be talking about is that you have to go through the times where there’s sadness and the times where there’s happiness, because where there is sadness, there is happiness. Or in another term, when there…

The reading Zahak The Dragon King translated by Parviz Lashgari and Deirdre Lashgari recounts about a son named Zahak who betrayed his father Mardas who was king where it takes place mostly in Iran for the origins of the story. Zahak was full of hate and cruelty which lead him to be the way he is, which explains why he betrayed his and took all his property and what he had in progress. However, per the text at the time there was another king called Jamshid who had much more power than anyone on…