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borders retracting further and further, creating a larger and larger category of the abnormal. The process of normalization measures the individuals of a society against the norm, identifying within the individual the areas where it does not quite fit. “Normalizing power produces individuals as epistemic objects, as ‘case histories’, as collections of measured deviations from given norms. It individuates its subjects by comparing them to one another and ranking them. It thus produces more or…

Are all animals equally entitled a right of moral standing or do they need to be a part of the moral community to be accepted as equals? Singer's view is that non-human animals should be equal to humans because they have the ability to feel pain/ suffer and avoid suffering and that, overall Speciesism is wrong. Fox’s view is that animals have to have certain characteristics to be part of the moral community, so they don't have rights, so they shouldn't be part of the community. Both have a…

determination to make a change in United States Society. Cultural relativism fits in with the idea of basic human rights because it allows every person their own opportunities to make decisions based on their own opinion and act on those decisions. Rights like political, civic, social, economic, and most importantly life are just a few of the basic human rights found inside the United States. Stemming off from these innate rights there have been a wide variety of social…

creation of the declaration, this was an important factor. For instance, the declaration states, “…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” (“Declaration”). The quotation states that within the United States, all men are equal and are granted the same rights. This concept…

its population toward specific ideas of right and wrong. United States is no exception. To help explain this influence of religion, Yael Yishai writes of a term called “public ideas”. He defines it as “a set of durable beliefs having broad scope that…

Martin Luther King Jr and many other civil rights speakers have told us, “...to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.” From this quote, we can interpret one main thing, freedom means a lot to people who desire it. To me, freedom means that we can be who we really are without being judged, to practice religion and faith without being criticized, and to do things without being forced to. Many people who are afraid to do certain things, are not actually free. Yes they…

Imagine what our nation would be like if we were denied our basic rights. In the Declaration of Independence it states that all men are allowed certain unalienable rights. The main rights are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, these rights are violated many times in literature and real life. A good example of these rights being trampled in literature is in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this book Scout and Jem , a little girl and boy, watch the…

govern a society, the established government needs a certain amount of control and power over the citizens. Mitchell defines this social contract as, “social contract an agreement among citizens or between the ruler and the ruled that defines the rights and duties of each party.” Locke views humans as benign in nature, who would passively live out their lives without interfering with their neighbors. Hobbes believes that humans are innately aggressive and must be controlled and regulated by a…

Rights emphasizes a different dimension from the use of the term called justice. When we use the word justice we are typically concerned with how according to which pattern valuable things seem to benefits and their opposite burdens have become distributed. When we first talk about rights, most of us first think of entitles, typically having to do with human individuals. The human individuals supposedly possess or bears those rights. The connection between rights and justice is the duties. The…

Const. Preamble). The governing entities around the world should not be using either force or the threat of force to keep people from harming themselves. Each governing action is backed up by a man with a gun. Personal liberties and inalienable rights are granted not by the government, but instead by…