Objection

Looking at his first objection, selfless love isn’t meaningful love, Ayn Rand states, “A selfless disinterested love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values” (Rand, #?) Meaning a person who is selfless, values others, but being disinterested, by this I take as meaning detached in a sense, the person is loving not because they love the values of a person but because they are suppose to love all people. Rand states that going along with being selfless…

The main objections to her argument are how to test reason responsiveness and where to draw this sharp line of division. The line of the division should in no way be a true argument because its deeply flawed in Regan’s description. Warren describes this sharp line…

Parental Censorship of School Literature Students in the graduating classes below Julia's may never get to read the Twilight series. Her parents thought that vampires and werewolves were unholy, satanic things to write about, not to mention that there were sexual themes, violence, and curse words present. Indignant, they called the school to complain when their daughter brought the series home to read. Her school chose to remove the books from its library, depriving the entire student body of…

The first is referred to as the Swine objection. This objection claims that Mill basing all morality on pleasure demeans humans to nothing more than common swine, or pigs. It also states that the idea of hedonism is degrading in itself. If the only pursuit or guidance for humans lies within our own pleasure…

Plantinga presents it first in the form of “the evidentialist objection to theistic belief, according to which belief in God is unreasonable or irrational because there is insufficient evidence for it.” His version of anti-evidentialism are been apply generally. Naturally, Plantinga position has already been subjected to careful criticism and yet some useful points remain to be made. His direct examination of the evidentialist objection turns up nothing that weakens it in any way, that his claim…

The Ethics of Mandatory Vaccination The year is 1902, and the state of Massachusetts has just suffered from a smallpox epidemic. Hoping to curb the spread of the disease, the state implements a mandatory vaccination policy, fining those who refuse to take the vaccine. Henning Jacobson refuses the vaccine, claiming that vaccines have hurt him in the past, and sues his state. Losing the case, he then appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States. However, the Supreme Court upheld the…

twenty years there has been a big push to come up with alternatives to incarceration, with the purposes of reducing prison and jail populations and reduce the cost to the tax payers with a positive integration of offenders into society. The key objection from opponents to this effort was that the government entities pushing for the alternatives to incarceration would bypass or ignore the rights of the victims to these crimes (V.C. Archive. (N.D.). The states indicated that the creation of these…

Ali shouldn’t be allowed to be a conscientious objector. The three grounds to apply to be a conscientious objector are 1) an applicant’s objection must be against participating in war in any form, not just a particular war 2) the applicant must show that this opposition is based upon religious training and belief, and 3) the applicant must show that this objection is sincere. (Source 3). Ali was now free to fight again although Nixon and other government officials wanted to sentence Ali to…

This objection is firstly supported by the lack of convincing empirical evidence proving that the death penalty is a deterrent marginally superior to long-term imprisonment (Radelet and Akers 1996). And secondly, by a point raised by Reiman that there is no evidence…

– that is to determine when a minority receives preferential treatment due to affirmative action as opposed to without it. Specifically showing that a person did or did not receive a benefit due to affirmative action would often feed the general objections related to affirmative action mentioned earlier in this article. However, if those problems could be overcome, we are still stuck calculating the value of that admission, promotion, or hiring. Just as it is impossible to put a price on prior…