...it morally wrong? Some might say that having a beloved pet die is one of the worst things to happen to them, but what about bringing a new being into the world that resembles the one lost? It is a reminder of the pain and hurt that family or person felt when they lost their precious pet. There is a another question at hand.. Does it go against human morals? While at first glance it might seem like a solution to death, it is the natural order of life. Beings and animals die, however saddening it might be. Cloning is completely slandering that principle, that way of how life naturally goes. Qualities and genetics spliced and replicated into the same but entirely new being. Memory however is lacking, of their previous life but that doesn't make it anymore right to have this reminder, this almost identical pet...
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...Medical Testing on Animals is Immoral For my persuasive essay I have chosen to argue why it is immoral to do medical testing on animals. History of testing on animal goes back to the Greeks in the 3rd and 4th centuries, with Aristotle and Erasistreatus being among the first to perform experiments on living animals. I feels it’s immoral to animals because over 100 million animals are dying just to find cures for diseases (Hajar). However, the consequences of medical testing on animals is that most of the animals are not covered by the Animal Welfare Act. The Animal Welfare Act is the only Federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research and exhibition. Another consequence would be that most animal testing can mislead researchers with non -potential cures and treatments. The Food and Drug organization reports that just 92 out of each 100 medications that breeze through on creature tests come up short in people. This statement means most of the drugs tested on animal don’t even work on humans half the time. Next, "In the name of science", animal experiments globally are around 100 million experiments each year. Cats, dogs, rabbits, mice and other animals, no different to those we have as pets, are used in experiments. Animals are force-fed harmful substances, infected with lethal viruses, subjected to brain damage, heart attacks, stokes, cancers and ultimately killed. Several cosmetic tests commonly perform med on mice, rats, rabbits, and...
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...Utilitarianism and Kantianism Utilitarianism is where an action is only morally right if it benefits most of the beings in a community. Kantianism, however, is more about whether it is right or wrong instead of focusing on the consequences that follow. An example of utilitarianism would be a person who recently got a raise at their job. They want to spend the money on things they want, like new clothes, furniture, and the like. They later decide that it would be a better idea to buy presents for their parents and siblings instead. It does not really do much for this person, but it does make their family happy. A classic example of Kantianism is to not steal simply because it is immoral. To Kant, the consequences would not matter, no...
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...“There’s nothing natural about a lion, or tiger, or killer whale, jumping through a hoop or standing vertically to obtain a food reward.” (“Welcome Progress on captive wildlife” 1). When I was a little girl, I loved to see animals doing tricks. After doing some research, now I know some shows are wrong. Animal captivity is wrong because it’s dangerous for people and for the animals, and it’s not natural. Animals such as orcas should never be in captivity. Having animals in captivity can be dangerous for people. “There is no established record of orcas killing human being in the wild… In captivity, however, it’s a different story. Since the 1970’s killer whales in captivity have attacked 24 people around the world, and some of these encounters have been fatal… so why do they attack people in captivity when they don’t in the wild? The answer seems to be captivity-related stress.” (Should We Be Keeping” 1, 2). When animals in captivity get stressed,...
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...Not many people are sure what to think about the new laws congress is passing allowing gay marriages. But who are we to say what is wrong or right? Who are we to decide if someone can be loved or not. When most kids were growing up with loving families were taught that they are to love everyone unconditionally. When the child grows up giving and accepting hugs and kisses from people you know or didn’t know, or same and or opposite sex. So when these individuals get older just because some book or political group, or another group says it’s wrong or bad that means it is. If everyone made up their own minds instead of what everyone one else want them to think it would be a better world I believe this issue has been around for many years and it is now just becoming more and more of an issue. I think if a same sex couple wants to be together and live together then they should be able to have the same rights as every other couple. Otherwise when something drastic happens there would be no one around to make the decisions needed. Being if it has to be about their house, kids, possessions, and final arrangements. In same sex marriage since it has become legal and recognized they are now allowing there partner to make their final arrangements when they die. “Married couples can combine their estate tax exemptions. This means that the second spouse to die can leave property worth up to $10 million free from federal estate tax. Unmarried couples do not get the "portability," so that...
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...Animal Rights First of you might ask what is animal rights? Well, animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, services to humans. The earliest animal rights has been around (theory, proposal or project wise) is by Percy Bysshe Shelley ,born from 1792-1822, it doesn’t exactly say when he proposed the idea but it had to have been early 1800’s. The first time it became a real thing was in 1970 by richard D. Ryder and was known as speciesism. There are plenty of rights for animals and I will be giving you the top 9 of them which are: Human overpopulation, property status of animals, veganism, factory farming, fish and fishing, animal experimentation (vivisection), hunting, fur, and animals...
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...kill healthy animals on an average of 20 to 30 times a year. An animal's life shouldn't be based on human actions, whether it's a zoo causing the animals to inbreed and have gene mutations, or the zoo not having enough room for the animal to live. Animals have a place in the world and they should have rights just as human beings do. Although some say that killing animals in zoos helps maintain the circle of life and prevents inbreeding, it is unethical for zoos to kill animals because they should have their own rights, and humans should not interfere with the circle of life. Zoos are killing animals to save space in their enclosures, but also to prevent inbreeding. When animal that is born an animal dies, its the circle of life,...
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...Animals used to simply exist to fulfil human needs and desires, we considered them as a resource for us to use and enjoy. The suffering of animals has now been brought to our attention with a dramatic increase in the concern for animals. Animal rights are also known as the welfare to animals. Our ever increasing scientific knowledge has allowed humans to identify the problems we were unaware of regarding the misuse of animals. Many religious believers have re-assessed this situation and the importance of human kindness in the world based on the idea that humans have been given responsibility from God to care for our world, environment and species. Christianity having 6 million actively practicing followers and therefore being the most popular religion in the word have a traditionally negative approach to the ‘miss-use’ of animals and suggest that animals only have an instrumental value. They think that animals have moral status and should be treated with respect however not as much as humans deserve. They push the idea that animals can feel pain the same as us and should be entitled to rights and equality. Many Christians believe that we are wrong to view animals as a resource to be killed for sport, experiments or fashion purposes. Peter Singer is a strong believer of animal rights ‘a member of one species has a clear prejudice against its members of the other species’ he says that this is just like racism – an attitude which is wrong and should not be supported. However many...
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...Amazon Draft Years ago far into the past animals walked the earth long before humans walking and prowling as they please. Now they have changed other animals walk this earth with an iron fist changing everything they see. But is this all really bad, it is all really really bad. the one thing that has been in the grasp of many two legged creatures is the Amazon rainforest. It's the world's pearl as a red flame it engulfs the forest as if they were performing as if it were just there just for you. the charcoal air had turned from being crystal clear. All this just for new apartment or a new mall?The world that were trying to protect so dearly from everything that we have done. As the sweat drips from your face you start to realize that everything...
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...The Only Home We Have “Home is the place where they have to let you in.” From the beginning of the life on earth, every living creature has felt the sense of belonging. Belonging to some place that makes us safe, comfortable and peaceful. It’s called home, in today’s language. Home is the place where we all born, raised and come back again everytime when we leave. It’s what we need to be able to continue living. Since the life has begun on the earth, nature is the home for all living creatures. As Robert Frost said, nature lets every living creature in when they born, but unfortunately humankind is not able understand how precious the nature is and how should we treat the nature. Earth is our nature, the only nature we can live and survive as far as scientists discover another nature in the outer space. But the question is, are we showing the same respect nature shows us by letting us in without wanting anything in return? The answer is obvious and worrying. We, as humans, are disrespectful, self-centered and reckless towards the nature because of the materialistic perspective we have and the nature is keeping used and consumed by us as the ‘perfect tool’ to achieve our materialistic determinations, pleasures and comfort without realizing it’s the only home we have. Instead of showing gratitude to the nature, humans use the nature for materialistic determinations and benefits. Considering how was the nature when the life first started on earth and how it is now, a great influence...
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...[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines]Lisa Hillquist Liberty University Part I: What is a worldview? A worldview is what all of us use to guide us in everything that we do. Our worldview guides us in how we relate to others, make decisions, to how we even buy groceries. The word “worldview” is translated from the German word welt which means “world” and anschanung which means “perception” (Hinson and Cantor, The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics, 2008) A worldview is all encompassing thoughts and views that we have about life. How we believe and think whether it be right or wrong is how we view the world. We each have been influenced in our lives from parents, friends, media, to what we have decided on our own (our own personality). Each one of us can look at the same thing and come up with many different answers, it’s how we perceive the world and how we think. If we each were blindfolded and were told to touch a platypus and we had never seen one before we would all come up with different opinions of what the animal was, we might even say that it was some kind of weird duck. As a Christian your worldview needs to be aligned with the Word of God. In 2 Timothy 2:15-16 (ESV) we should be careful in what we say that we should not lead others astray. 218 Part II: 1. The Question of Origin: How did life begin? How did mankind come into existence? There are many secular theories of how life has come into being, but as Christians we believe...
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...Laura Rogers APOL104 – B08 September 5, 2012 Worldview Assignment Part I: What is a world view? A worldview is easily described as the person’s perception of the world around them and is the framework for decision making. You can think of a worldview like a pair of glasses. When you look out of those glasses what do you see? Dr. Weider in his presentation gave an example; if your glasses are red then everything around you will be red. (Weider & Gotierrez, 2011) This is the same for worldview. Everyone has a worldview if they know it or not. It’s how we organize our thinking about life, death, art, science, faith, learning, work, money, values, and morals. (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.50) Worldview is our underlying philosophy of life. Part II: Articulate the biblical/Christian Worldview with Five Questions The Biblical Worldview begins with God and can be known through His creation of and revelation to humankind.(Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.69) This revelation of God can be described as general revelation or special revelation. General Revelation is known by humans by two methods. The two methods are natural and the creation of men and women in His image. (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.70) General revelation is limited in its scope because of the fall; now humans are separated from God and were limited from their natural ability to know and have that relationship with God. Special revelation is when God makes known vital truths which cannot be known through...
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...Animal rights By Stacey Kom Animal rights is the idea that some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. Research Information: The consequences of animal rights Animal rights teach us that there are some things that it is morally wrong to do to animals. Human beings must not do those things, no matter what the cost to humanity of not doing them, or even if they do them in a humane way. For example: if animals have a right not to be bred and killed for food then animals must not be bred and killed for food. It makes no difference if the animals are given 5-star treatment throughout their lives and then killed humanely without any fear or pain - it's just plain wrong in principle, and nothing can make it right. Accepting animal rights means: • No experiments on animals • No breeding and killing animals for food or clothes or medicine • No use of animals for hard labour • No selective breeding for any reason other than the benefit of the animal • No hunting • No zoos or use of animals in entertainment the case for animal rights is usually derived from the case for human rights. The argument (grossly oversimplified) goes like this: • Human animals have rights • There is no morally relevant difference between human animals and adult mammals • Therefore adult mammals must have rights...
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...Never judge a book by its cover. One should never prejudge the value or worth of someone or something by its outward appearance alone. Every individual needs its own merits. We are constantly stuck challenging the beliefs of others due to this foolish action. Don’t bully my breed! The only thing they fight is discrimination. American Bullies and Pit Bulls are the most misunderstood, misinterpreted beings around. One cannot judge these animals for how they are portrayed. One does not know the lives they’ve lived! Each knows its own pain and renunciation. I have loved American Bullies and Pit Bulls since the day I laid eyes on them. I have been raised around both these breeds and many others. I never believed they could harm me in anyway. These animals are unique, you have to look passed the stereotypes and breed. Your beliefs should be based off what you know for a fact and hands on experience, not what you hear. I challenge the belief that these animals could actually harm someone or be aggressive....
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...for granted the rights that they are given. The ability to live, buy and do whatever a person wants is a right that many people around the world take for granted. Places in the world like North Korea do not have those rights, and in the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals struggle under a dictatorship where rights are limited. The following three paragraphs will include, how the novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell portrays a farm in which there is a need for natural and human rights, the reality of North Korea, where conditions are poor and human rights are minimal, and how George Orwell was trying to warn his audience of the future. In Animal Farm, Orwell creates a farm where the animals have a need...
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