Human reliability

There are many factors that cause relationships to form. Whether it be love, hate, envy or indignation they all draw people together either in helpful or detrimental ways. Feelings and emotions are the driving force of why humans connect. Some of the emotions or driving factors that may seem like opposites, actually are eerily similar. For example, love and hate are both very strong emotions or feelings one could have for another person, yet they have some of the same characteristics. When one…

illusion of being “happy.” But then he realized there were greater possibilities. So, he sold his small plot of land and bought some elsewhere. He repeated that pattern until the day he died, and if he hadn’t of died, the pattern would have continued. As humans, we’re selfish, we’re greedy, and we always want more. When looking for…

Always Costs,” not only lays out the facts about the damage that reckless advancement has on Earth, but also outlines some methods of testing and caution that should be put into practice for the benefit of humanity. Witnessing the recklessness of the human race through detrimental untested technological innovations, Suzuki describes through several examples the damages of technologies such as that of DDT and thalidomide. Furthermore Suzuki outlines a dangerous system ridden with a lack of…

Suppose there was a world in which no one had a moral compass. There would be nothing stopping someone from doing anything, as nothing would be seen as “wrong” or “right.” It would be a real life Lord of the Flies, with savagery and disorder being commonplace. But what is a moral compass anyway? The dictionary definition defines it as “a person's ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly,” but is there more to it than that? The use of moral compass can be seen almost anywhere,…

At one point or another, we must come to an agreement that everyone sees everything differently from one person to the next, opinions are widely different and very diverse, however; there are many subjects which only broadens the spectrum even more than before. Now some people choose to keep their opinions behind closed doors, mostly for the sole purpose that they are not harshly judged by the other individuals that they may happen to be around in just a regular day. Judgement is just something…

Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) article, “Ethics Guide: Eating Animals,” it examines three different ethical perspectives – the rights argument, the consequential (utilitarian) argument, and the virtue argument – against the rearing and killing of animals for human consumption in layman’s terms primarily for the average contemporary reader in Anglo-American societies (such as Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom). Furthermore, the BBC, a leading worldwide media corporation, contends…

Although many describe truth’s effectiveness as mountain-crumbling, perhaps the intrinsic value of truth is romanticized. This is not to say that falsehood automatically has more power than the truth; simply that, in a given context, perhaps, the sole knowledge of the truth would fail to convert an obstinate and cruel audience to righteousness. In such a situation, the power of truth’s possessors eclipses the intrinsic power of the truth to maintain morality and to eradicate evil falsehoods.…

to survive. In the article “Defining Sustainability, Defining the Future” Ethan Goffman states about the four levels of sustainability in the hierarchy scale which are “Quality of life and other values, Species Extinction and human rights, Health and life expectancy, and Human Survival at the basic level” (Goffman 85). He is trying to say that people should not be scared to show and share their decisions with other people so they can live the lifestyle they want without any trouble and have a…

Great Minds Do Think Alike: But Not in All Cases... Imagine having to use a different bathroom just because you were a person of color. Imagine not being able to enter a theatre, hotel, restaurante, train car, museum, library, or school just because they were areas that a particular race claimed. This was the reality for African Americans during the Progressive era of the United States. This era was a time of change in the legal status of African Americans, they were freed from slavery and…

his own knowledge in proving certain aspects of the infinite, which would, in a way, strengthen his arguments. Despite their different approaches and ideas, in general, of the infinite, these two philosophers came to find important realizations of human nature and the world around them.…