The Slippery Slope

that all life is to be valued. It is a gift from God, and it is useful (BBC). To put our own selves to death is to lose respect for ourselves, and basically tell the world that your life really does not matter. There is also the principal of the “slippery slope”. If we allow voluntary euthanasia to become legalized then how long before involuntary euthanasia is introduced, and then all of a sudden we are living in feudal Japan where the Shoguns would send the samurai to kill people in the…

America is criticized by many people who live around that area for many negative factors brings to life. As mentioned in a Letter to America, Margaret Atwood she states how America is criticized by having dirt water in people’s showers and how America has such a sloppy behavior. Atwood does not talk about the good positive things about America and men and women can disagree that America has negative factors by talking about the positive factors America brings out to them. People can enjoy the…

Do you think that a middle-aged man from the Duchy of Florence foresaw problems that God did not foresee? What you fail to understand my dear Brother Galileo, is that if the Church allows you to interpret the bible as you see fit, it becomes a slippery slope. Once that precedent has been set, what can stop someone from saying that Christ’s crucifixion, the virgin birth, or the miracles of raising Lazarus from the dead were all simply metaphors? Once this happens, the Church will crumble and its…

For some of us, suicide is a distant thought. The thought is so distant, in fact, that it is rarely or never thought about, but for others suicide is an asphyxiating reality. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young adults. Approximately 30,000 teenagers die from suicide, and approximately 750,000 teenagers attempt suicide each year. Many people may ask what could possibly cause someone to willingly take away his or her beautiful gift of life, and many believe that nothing could be…

Is College Worth It? There are many reasons why a person may attend college. Some go for the opportunity to get employment; that through their hard work and money spent, they will end up in a high-paying field that will help repay their debts. In a different group, there are those who go to obtain a higher level knowledge, to better understand the world they live in and learn how to communicate with people that they would normally never would. Both of these ideas are beneficial in their own…

clear to me why she was trying to hard sell reality TV in such a fashion. I never had a problem with reality TV other than the fact that some people I know try to emulate the way people act on those shows. Maybe I am overthinking this. It is a slippery slope however; one day a person might be enjoying an episode of The Bachelorette and the next he might not even remember his own name. One could lose himself and end up in a cold dark room with the blinds closed avoiding phone calls from…

Without understanding the literary mechanics of a story, the underlying causes cannot be uncovered. Literary devices such as foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony are critical in understanding the roots of any story. These three devices are best suited to represent an important message that O’Connor intended to convey through her writing. Flannery O’Connor’s writing contains many subtle messages that are only unlocked through close study of the devices in her stories. The short story “A Good Man…

That if we allow people to gain access to doctor assisted suicide. Which could eventually lead us down a “slippery slope that will lead to us… [Allowing] non-voluntary euthanasia” (Voluntary Euthanasia, 5-6). Allowing non-voluntary euthanasia will allow hospitals, parents, or guardian to put someone down that did not want to die, but were unable to express it due…

research and scrutiny in recent years because of multiple cases, including baby M and many others. It raises a moral question: is this practice equivalent to selling babies? The answer is unclear and the arguments made for it often lead to a “slippery slope.” In attempting to answer this question I will argue that paid surrogacy should be legal in certain circumstances and under regulation. To start I will defend paid surrogacy, by using the opposing side's arguments, and will conclude by…

Dystopia Dystopian societies are represented by different pictures in the minds of different people. One might imagine the human rights disaster that is North Korea, for example. A few fictional examples include Harrison Bergeron, The Lottery, and The Ones Who Walked From Omelas. These short stories all feature a common theme: society is seen as a utopia to the characters, but the author has added a characteristic (or characteristics) that contaminates it. The characteristics can be very minor,…