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Animal Rights For Decades the American society as well as many others, have been participants in an ongoing controversy regarding animal rights and animal protection. This particular debate has raised so much havoc in the world today, considering activist for animal rights are very passionate and will not stop on the account of politeness to get a point across. A widely known animal rights group established in 1980, known as Peta are famous for throwing buckets of wet paint on a various victims…

Between “Jon” and Brave New World seem to both point to something essentially human that cannot be replaced by technology. Our human nature that responds to the world in an animalistic way as these texts and their symbolism point out cannot be filled or silenced. The literature clearly asks us to compare ourselves and to redefine what being civilized really is since the citizens of both the World State and the Facility are supposed to be refined and civilized but their actions and words are…

In Immanuel Kant’s “Duties toward Animals, Spirits, and inanimate objects” he makes his stance on animal rights very clear. He believes that we have no direct duties to animals, yet we have indirect duties towards them in order to benefit mankind. Though many philosophers agreed with his way of thinking, many modern day philosophers and scientists are able to find flaws in Kant’s arguments. Kants belief that “we have no duties to animals, plants, material objects, or the environment as a…

land of the free, but is it really free? Do people ever question or go into depth about how free we are? Our government gives us rights which gives us a little bit more freedom. The United States may not have a quintessential freedom but compared to other countries, it might as well be. According to dictionary.com, freedom is defined as the following; "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint; the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved;…

principles of justice to the idea of democratic citizens viewed as free and equal persons.” The two Rawlsian principles of justice that serve as guidelines are stated as follows: Each person has an equal claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic rights and liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme for all; and in this scheme the equal political liberties, and only those liberties, are to be guaranteed their fair value. Social and economic inequalities…

The American flag is one of the last symbols of hope. It stands for life, support and freedom. One example of how the flag is a symbol of life is when people die the veterans, the soldiers or anyone who worked for this country bring all the flags to half-mast to honor the people that die during the incident that occurred. When a flag is old and tattered persons cut the stars out and send them to friends and family so the flag is remembered but isn't “suffering”. The U.S. flag also stands for…

The second amendment has become a controversial topic in recent politics. Written into the constitution in 1776 by our founding fathers it states “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed upon.” Politicians argue over the meaning of this amendment, but the fathers wrote it clearly, and does not leave room for interpretation. The creators of the second amendment believed that citizens owning guns…

Let’s Stand Up For Liberty Citizens rights and liberty of America has been a very hot topic throughout all these years. There are many citizens who feels as if their rights are being abused and there are also some who would disagree. The ones who feel as if their rights are being abused are the ones who are under the government. They have limits to everything that they do in their life such as wars, racism, and speech and many more. The ones who would debate against this are the ones who are…

assembly, “absence of the right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of expression and opinion, and therefore no effective democracy.” FREE PRESS AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 477 There must be a reasonable balance…

portion of cause and effect as committing a “right” action will result in a good outcome and a “wrong” action will result in a bad outcome. The consequences of the act is basically the effect portion of cause and effect, so if a person does something wrong then the person will receive a negative outcome and if a person does something good then the will positive outcome. The moral agent is a person’s ability to make moral judgment based on their notion of “right” and “wrong” and also accepts the…