article written by Erika Blacksher considers the public health concepts and principles to include the policies and laws that promote public health. It provides an ethical approach in moral justification of policies, laws that protect and promote public health. Blacksher examines and questions the justification of paternalistic intervention, fair distribution of health and patient care intervention on all social economic levels. The article begins with defining what public health is then goes…
expectation that there will be some sort of justification. But judgment day never comes for Tom and especially for Daisy, who gets away with murder. After Tom and Daisy make their silent escape, Nick takes a step back and reflects on them, thinking that, “they smashed up things and…
In the article “Race and Reification in Science” by Troy Duster, the main argument consists of the idea that African Americans simply have more health problems than other races. Studies show that African Americans tend to die quicker, and have issues of hypertension or heart diseases in their early life. Duster emphasizes the differences between Americans of European decent and Americans of African descent in the field of science, medicine, and society by giving multiple examples of real life…
The Capital Punishment is a very questionable controversy among numerous people. In this world there is a difference when comparing malicious and benevolent people. Jonathon Kay proclaims, “rational thinkers don’t murder 2 year-old children. They do it because they are evil. And that is why we long to see these criminals die… repaying blood with blood” (Kay). The Death Penalty dictates whether or not criminals who have committed terrible crimes deserve the right to live. This issue is serious…
In Douglas Baynton’s “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” Baynton argues that the idea of disability was used in American history to justify discrimination. People with perfect health from the past viewed disability as a form of disease because of their “dysfunctional body”. Women, African Americans, and immigrants were viewed as disabled because they are “abnormal”; they don’t have the ideal body built and mind to be defined as “normal”. “Normal”, as Baynton…
in political philosophy is utilitarianism. The utilitarian justification for the state is that the existence of a state promotes happiness better than if the state didn’t exist. One objection to this is that utilitarianism will require us to do things that we intuitively think are horrible although they might promote overall happiness. In this paper, I will argue that this objection threatens the success of the utilitarian justification for the state because our moral intuitions play a bigger…
Imagine sitting around the table eating dinner on a regular Tuesday night when suddenly you are lying on the road, bleeding, and can’t seem to find your family. This is what the citizens of Dresden experienced on February 13th, 1945, when the Allies dropped more than 3,900 tons of explosives on the city, killing over 25,000 Germans. This was clearly a horrible event in history as were the other German and Japanese bombing attacks, but was this tactic justified? No, the strikes on the German…
Bethlehem van Kesteren Dr. Marks Lit. 1A 12 -14 -14 I don't think it was justified for John Wilkes Booth to kill president Abraham Lincoln. Booth shouldn't have killed Lincoln because being president means a lot of people, there could have been another way of getting what he wanted, and Abraham Lincoln was only trying to do the right thing by helping African Americans gain their freedom. Lincoln wasn't just a regular man he was the president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was…
Is coherentism about justification plausible? When it comes to the acquisition of a true belief leading to knowledge, it is thought that these beliefs should be justified. Coherentism is a form of internal, non-linear justification which holds the idea that for a belief to be justified in any way it must cohere with a current system of beliefs. BonJour wrote that 'what justifies beliefs is the way they fit together' , in essence, for beliefs to be justified they must metaphorically form a…
could be the disciplines of history or the theory of ethics/morality. As distinguished earlier, there may be 3 main reactions if a scientific justification conflicts with a pseudo/non-scientific justification. But there is no all-encompassing answer that says whether we should completely support the scientific justification or the non-scientific justification, under the circumstances of each independent case. Hence it is important that within the domains of “science” we should form our own…