health in the future, but also it can affect outcomes in their lives. If a college student is caught taking Adderall to study “these stimulants also carries with it a mandatory five-year federal sentence.” (“Adderall is Definitely Not a Drug”: Justifications for the Illegal Use of ADHD Stimulants) If a student is caught taking or selling Adderall illegally they can end up in jail or having to pay a hefty fine. Adderall can affect personal records. In this case, using prescription drugs illegally…
economically due to smoke-free regulation. Contrarily, a National Smokers Alliance critique found the conclusion of Corsun-; et al. invalid do to the seasons of employment levels that have changed due to the implementation of the regulation. Authors’ Justification for the Selected Methodology and Design The methodology and design for this study were chosen to meet standard of businesses that are classified into a particular business according to the code reported on income-tax returns that…
Holocaust to regimes such as Stalin's Russia or Mao's China has shown us how society's innate belief of conformity, corruption, and power has fueled insanity and hysteria. Society has been repeatedly led by the elements of societal constraints, justification of society's nature and fear of isolation and the significance of the social…
William MacAskill argues in his book “Doing Good Better”, that we ought to donate towards charities that are the most effective. However, he also asserts that it is not morally justifiable to give to a cause that is close to one’s heart, insofar the charity the agent chooses to support is due to a subjective reason. He proposes this, because the charity may not be as effective and efficient as another one we could support with the same resources. Problematically, if we were to listen to…
Religion and Social/Political Institutions In every tradition there exists a religion, a system of belief beyond the grasp of man. Human beings have a desire for a supreme being, something they acquire through religion. Religion serves the purpose of quenching man’s thirst to be good and peaceful thereby creating some order. It does not matter how or when the development of man began, his overwhelming urge to worship has formed and will continue to give rise to more kinds of religious behaviors.…
not able to comprehend. Which causes a variety of meanings to alter the main idea of the message being delivered. In the essay written by Aldous Huxley, titled Words and Behavior, the author expands the minds of the intellect by introducing the justification of war through the use of language effectively to inform them about the corruption being used by politicians in order to favor their voracity of ignorance. There are many words people don’t know the meaning to, regardless of age, grade and…
As a justification for this brutal form of labor the colonist needed something that made African American slaves seem less than human. Eric Foner explains “Unlike in Africa, slaves in the America who became free always carried with them in their skin color the mark of bondage—a visible sign of being considered unworthy for incorporation as equals into free society.” As the natives in the south of George and California became involved in the slave trade by abandoning some of their own to…
The Rise of Big House Nation: From Reform to Revenge exposes the issues faced by prisoners and their strides to be heard and their demands to a better quality of life within the prison system. Parenti discloses that despite the money dispersed into the prison system; prisons remained overcrowded, fugitive and elusive. ‘From reform to revenge’ shows the contrast of American government within the bracket of morality in relation to the prison system and the ideology of what is supposed to be a…
proactive in oppressing themselves, making them control themselves and each other. In this essay, I will explain Foucault’s description of examination, and its component parts, and discuss the interplay between surveillance and society, focusing on justifications for surveillance, and…
An Exploration of Othello: Delving into the Mind Frame of Desdemona and Iago Immanuel Kant’s view on ethics and morality is that in order to determine if we are acting in a fashion that can be deemed moral, we have not only a duty to ourselves but others. It is duty that determines our actions. Kant establishes certain limitations and restrictions upon the notion of duty, narrowing down a definition which would allow us to therefore be able to readily distinguish “whether the action which agrees…