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    and makes an effort to get to know others, to interact with other people. Disinhibitory effect lifts restraints from antisocial people. This means someone who wants to be antisocial. Moral justification is one way in which people justify some of their anti-social behavior. The definition of moral justification is people believing that their otherwise deplorable actions are justifiable because they serve a higher purpose. An example of this would be taking someone's homework that they did and…

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    Justifying the Punishment of a Criminal Offender For decades, the debate on the justification of legal punishment has troubled scholars. The paper, “The Justification of General Deterrence,” written by Daniel M. Farrell adds to this debate by offering a unique take on the justification of punishment. In the paper, Farrell conceives the justification of punishment as “weakly retributivistic” –a balance between the radical form of retributivism and a forward-looking notion of punishment. Farrell,…

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    least infringement and Public justification. Least infringement which is one of the ethics indicating the actions taken by the public health services are at the minimum restraining and disturbing. This also denotes that the actions that are being implied should not effect the health of the public and should be at the level of lowest risk. Additionally, another ethics is the public justification which denotes the ideology that the affected citizens are getting justification and that they are…

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    His traumatic experiences caused Cullen's self-justification of his murders. To illustrate, the interviewer asked Cullen to offer an explanation for the victim’s families as to why he killed. Charles Cullen stated that the murders were not personal. “It was more or less I felt I needed to do something and I did…” (60 minutes, 8:37). In addition, Cullen also believed that he was helping his patients escape from pain. “I thought people weren’t suffering anymore so in a sense I thought I was…

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    Defense of justification is when there is imminent danger and police are not there to protect you. For example somebody broke into your home at night with a weapon and you do what you have to do to protect yourself. Defense of excuse is when someone knows what they did was wrong, but they are not responsible. If the defendant had a mental disease, was just a little kid when the incident took place or acted under duress. You can use self-defense to prevent death or serious bodily harm, if you…

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    Part 3: Preamble and Justification of the Four Policies Part 3.1: Policy Safety 1: Rebuilding, Monitoring and Assessments of Building Safety The council will grant planning permission for the development where safety will be maintained and enhanced, with its main focuses on:  Rebuilding damaged buildings by flooding or other disasters which improve their quality of safety to live in, and to ensure safety is valued during the development.  Ensuring that the quality of buildings will be…

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    Excuses and Justifications Research and multiple interview were conducted on convicted rapist who used excuses and justification to explain themselves and crimes. Convicted rapist incarcerated in maximum or medium-security prisons are split in two groups labeled deniers and admitters. Convicted rapist who are deniers attempted to justify their behavior regardless of their own action. Deniers placed full blame and responsibility on the victim and attempt to justify their rapes in five themes. The…

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    If the ‘Parable of the Vineyard’ is admitted to be a justification, then this statement is all the more valid for the parable narrated by Pearl. The words articulated directly before the biblical story denote exactly what the purpose of the teaching will be. Pearl claims that “Þer is no date of Hys [God’s] godnesse […] For al is trawþe þat He con dresse, and He may do noþynk bot ryȝt” (Pearl 493-496). The subject of the conversation which precedes this declaration also indicates that the aim of…

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    The courts then formed a test called the test of proportionality. This test was originally created by Lord Hope in the case of Kebeline but it was amplified in Lambert and was explained further in Brown v Scott . The test holds three limbs which are, what the prosecution must prove in order for the burden to shift to the accused, what is the burden of the accused and what is the nature of the threat to society which the Act in question is trying to prevent. If the reverse burden given to the…

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    The justification of taking an animals life, for the sake of the money given to the conservation camp that houses these big game animals counterintuitively helps them buy more land to house these animals, and the fact that there are indeed animals that are detrimental to the herd. Whether they are older males who are aggressive to the younger animals and even kill them to maintain dominance. This is bad because usually these males are no longer mating and thus are simply killing off their…

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