Right Now

Trying to determine what the right thing to do in a situation may lead to an abysmal void. Michael Sandel, a professor of justice at Harvard, poses his students with many controversial situations that spark different arguments and questions. Along with the situations, he introduces philosophies and moral principles that back up the contrasting perspectives. One of the first things that Sandel presents is consequential and categorical moral reasoning. While a consequential reasoning focuses on…

While the role of the law is to maintain order and achieve justice, often times, such as in cases involving mental illness, the operation of justice can involve ethical, legal, social, and medical issues which creates arguments about the balance of rights relating to effective treatment and lack of insight. Many of these issues arise when the subject of involuntary detention and treatment of mentally ill persons is discussed. Mentally ill people suffer from some of the greatest challenges of…

unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Does being subjected to name-calling such as “rag-head” or “firecracker” by American citizens demonstrate the values the United States was founded on? If individuals are coming over from the Middle East searching for better opportunities and are being deprived of their basic, essential needs, what does that say about America as a country? Why American citizens who value these unalienable rights are depriving others of rights…

I was a student-athlete my first year of college and I would never forget one memory that made a lasting impact on my life. It was a five kilometer race in which the main runners of the race actually ran off-course and had to be led back onto the right course for the race. I was one of the top runners and I had followed my competitors into the wrong direction. However, despite the anger that was brewing inside me I molded it into something beautiful and I raced my way to first place. I did not…

“Our division is ineffable if our union is unrequitable” - Henry Walsh. Throughout the course of its existence, the United States has been buffeted with cases of civil liberty- the basic rights and freedoms that make every citizen human. These issues of the American past have yet to be rectified due to the persistence, remembrance, and exclusivity of human nature. Through the utilization of an unrivaled tenacity, those opposed to progress have found loophole after loophole to prevent the…

In Simpson’s The Impossibility of Republican Freedom, he attacks Philip Pettit’s accounts of republican freedom. He raised two examples explicating that the impossibility of republican freedom. In this paper, I will go through Pettit’s account of republican freedom, and Simpson’s master-slave example. Also, I will focus on Simpson’s views: “Just by living among other people, one exposes oneself to the risk of confederacy. When that risk is present, one is dominated” (p.34). I will argue against…

Throughout American society, the citizens believe that they have rights that protect their free will. The citizens assume that every right given to them is for protection. They do not realize that a right can harm them. Truthfully, some of the rights that are given to the people by the governemnt are not benefical. In A Crime of Compassion by Barbara Huttmann, the author expresses her opinion towards the right of being revived. Do people have a right to end agonizing pain? Barbara Huttman’s…

A utopia is a place where everything is perfect. In this unit, we read Anthem and 1984, that explained different governments that could happen today. They both dealt with aspects of utopia because they tried to make everyone equal. As we learned, there is no way to create an ideal society because it helps create more problems. U.S. citizens use equality but that doesn’t create an ideal society because it points out problems. Conformity can help but it also creates rebellion and more problems.…

Prisoners’ rights generally reflect from the United States Constitution. According to Schmalleger and Smykia (2015), prisoners have the right to free speech, due process, personal rights, and protection to cruel and unusual punishment (p. 356). Prisoners have the right to free speech like anyone else, given that they must remain peaceful. Prisoners also have the right to a quick and speedy trial, they cannot have any unnecessary delay from trial. The prisoners also have personal rights to things…

human rights there are obligations that are commonly encountered as duties and are necessary for the rights to be applicable. There are different types of duties but the focus here is mostly on negative and positive duties. Negative duties limit what people can do and are recognized as duties not to do something, while positive duties require people to act in certain ways being recognized as duties to do something. During several years there was a misperception about civil and political rights…