...by a specific lifestyle imposes certain conditions on humans. In this paper, I will be tackling the topic of torture and how modern civilizations cannot cope with such an idea so disastrous and humiliating to mankind. Justifying the act of torture cannot resemble but an annoying image of humanity. In what’s below, I will argue with and against the practice of torture and will come to a conclusion that no matter what, torture will always reflect negatively on the society as the only way of justifying it is through perfect knowledge of the consequences that no one knows but God. I also considered the scenario of ticket- time bomb because it is considered to be the heaviest argument that justifies torture. So, let’s see how torture isn’t justified. One night, I went into my house and saw a man, on TV, beating a defenceless tied person. The man was actually beating the guy and enjoying the extreme pain he’s suffering from. He even cut the guy’s feet with a butcher’s knife. My whole family was watching the movie. My dad seemed to enjoy the movie. My brother was just shouting for the man and encouraging him to beat the guy further. My mom had no reaction towards what’s happening. And still my sister who looked really annoyed and demanded to change the channel over and over. This gives rise to the question of whether torture should be accepted or not. And does accepting torture imply that it is justified? The movie, called “Hostel”, turned out to be talking about a group of Man hunters...
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...peers might have never been in a situation like this, it is important to be educated and informed on the conditions we see as “fair” to put people in. The incarcerated person often spends all day in this cell and have no other human contact except for an hour that they get to do exercise locked inside of a cell (Leon).While many might not be aware of what solitary is, they should understand that the conditions those who are incarcerated face in prison are not ethical and often have a negative impact on the person overall, even after being released from this confinement and put back into general population. This makes solitary confinement not a form of reprimanding and deterring but rather a form of cruel and unusual punishment that is unethical and should be removed from all...
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...Proponents for animal testing will also argue their necessity from a ‘rights’ stance. The argument goes, animals don’t have rights, because they don’t have the same cognitive functions as humans. Therefore, when testing on a human is unethical, because it violates their rights, then test on animals. This argument, however, draws an arbitrary link between rights and ethical permissibility. Excuse my extremity, but black people didn’t have rights for awhile in American history, does that make slavery ethically permissible? The answer is no, it doesn’t. On the other hand, placing animals and humans on the same level of ethical validity also poses problems. If we did, then we’d have to imprison lions for killing deer, or imprison you and I for...
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...Animal Testing Every year over 100 million animals are killed due to animal testing (“Experiment”). Animals have been used for testing throughout history. Some individuals agree with animal testing but do not think about the harm scientist cause animals. Humans take their studies to the extreme by putting any product on animals not thinking about the consequences. Individuals do not think about how the products they are using were tested; they don’t realize what scientist did to test the product in order for them to use without having an issue. Animal testing shouldn’t be allowed to test any products or for medical studies; it is unethical and many animals are abused and harmed in various ways. Throughout history the practice of...
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...Today, the debate over animal rights is widely spread around the world. A lot more leather and fur companies found the business over making clothes from real animal skin, very beneficial for making a lot of money. Usually, those companies follows fashion and demands of famous people because they can bring the companies a lot of money. Therefore, many non famous people look up to the famous ones and see that they wear expensive fur on their jackets. So, this becomes a huge demand in 21st century. However, there are people who would not wear fur and leather because they stand for the animal rights. The debate whether we should put animals through misery in order to make fashionable and expensive clothes to feel more "sexy", became a sensitive question among people. I think animals should take place in our world not as equal to us but as a kingdom which is the most close to ours. That means we should respect them and satisfy their needs as much as they satisfy ours. The business that deals with making real animal fur and leather became such a good deal today. The companies that work in this business became very popular because the demand for real leather and fur has increased. This demand increased due to the fact that so many famous people wants to wear it. They have a lot of money, so they usually do not care about how much they will spend on clothes and they especially do not care how that clothes is made . Many of them want to look fashionable, to show the world that they...
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...around him. However the disadvantage of this approach is that they couldn't predict the consequences of his death, even if the consequences seemed more likely at the time but because in their view the good consequences outweighed the bad they chose to use restraint. Kant's theory would disagree with this and he would say the utilitarian approach used by staff was wrong and unethical simply because he believed they broke fundamental rules, such as not to harm another person. He would have said that even though staff were trying to protect the man and others around him their action was wrong because they were doing it to make the largest amount of people happy and this doesn't always make the action right. For it to be ethical Kant would say the action had to be good and restraining somebody to the point they died was far from 'good will'. Kant would suggest other less offensive methods would suffice...
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...Introduction Can a rotten egg make a good Omelet? The end/means dilemma is an old and popular scenario. The answer to this question depends on what the type of goals or ends are and what means are being used to achieve them. Moreover, Gandhi, pioneer and a theorist of satyagraha said, “I feel that our progress towards the goal will be in exact proportion to the purity of our means”. Indeed, according to the Gandhian philosophy, the means and ends are like the two sides of the same coin. They are inseparable from each other. That is why, for example, Gandhi struggled whole life against British and never adopted the wrong means. I. Do ends ethically justify their means? Most people use the expression "the ends justify the means" as an excuse...
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...was being supervised by prison guards at this time who were given orders not to intervene even though they saw Ms. Smith attempting to commit suicide. After her successful attempt, Ms. Smith was the headline of many major news stations, all of which painted Ms. Smith to be a “troubled” and “disturbed” young woman. This paper will discuss how the labelling theory causes stereotypes that are deeply rooted into our history and maintained today through mass media. I will be using this theory to show how one’s basic human rights can be stripped and justified by Canadian Law in the name of security. I will be using...
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...again especially from the physical, emotional and mental trauma. They live in constant fear and may up end being psychologically conceded. It is an immoral state in which is one of the greatest ethical challenges facing the modern times It paints a picture of inequality. With this, it is every right over his or her life, and the victims are bound to sell their freedom. We as a collective should create more awareness of human trafficking because it’s one of the most occurring/progressing crimes of today. We as a whole should consider looking more into it and how it contributes/effects so many. Firstly, why it is important and what is the reality of it. –What we don’t know about it and how it should more focused on in the media It has established itself as a 25 billion dollar industry which has its principal participants as financiers, unprincipled recruiters and unethical public officials. Slavery isnt been a problem that has been abolished, and it isn’t something that happens in undeveloped of backward countries either. It continues in the most developed countries in the world such as the U.S and UK As we grew up, we have been “taught” that we don't value one human life over another, yet, human trafficking in a constant recap of how this value we have been taught doesn’t apply to many. First of all, how does the human trafficking structure work? Human trafficking is commonly divided into two main areas: (SHOW IMAGES) sex trafficking and labour trafficking. Sex trafficking...
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...Eating meat is unethical In this few pages I’m going to discuss the topical subject of vegetarianism, whether it is or it isn’t a life choice to consider and why. I invite you here to consider that we have conscience of our acts and therefore we know the consequences they have in ourselves and the world; also we can live healthy, full lives without eating meat and finally it is not coherent or logic to defend certain animals while killing others. In a society where the constant battle is for freedom and rights of living creatures, I believe these aforementioned issues are things we should each consider seriously since they say a lot about ourselves; they are in the very core of who we are and the actions we are willing to take to build a better, more compassionate society. I’m going to defend why eating meat is unethical, not something entirely natural nor something we should encourage. To begin with, let’s clarify the concept of ethics. There are way too many definitions of this term, but I’m going to work with the one that is taken from the word ethos (Greek) which means “character” or “custom” and defines some appropriated morals (norms) to follow in a society, but also as individuals; they define what is virtuous and good and what is not in some way (not to be confused with rules and laws, which involves more of a legal and inflexible context). There are several fields of application for ethics and I’m going to support what I say by bringing up the utilitarian and environmental...
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...Profit Vs. Freedom of Speech: a Cross-Cultural Perspective It is no secret that in a business profit is the bottom line. It is the reason someone starts a company, the reason employees crawl out of bed each morning, and the reason why sometimes ethical values are bent or broken. On the small scale, such as a local grocery, ethics of the owners and employees can be easily maintained because the area they are operating in shares the same values. This, however, is not the case with global businesses. Instead of a local community for profits large businesses rely on the global market, thus exposing and challenging their original ethics for the sake of continued profits. This cross-cultural perspective will examine a recent example of this challenge when the company Google began to expand into the Chinese and other Asian markets. Google is a multi-billion dollar company that was started in the garage of two Stanford students in 1997 (Google, 2012). The initial goal was to produce an internet search engine that would be able to find and provide access to an immeasurable amount of information. Since its inception, Google published several values that were believed to be the essence of the company. Among them were that all focus should be on the user of the product and that any ad revenue should not come at the users cost, examples include pop-up advertising and manipulated searches (Google, 2012). Google also started with a relaxed approach to business, believing that employees worked...
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...do not have the death penalty, not including Washington D.C. where the death penalty is also not allowed. The death penalty can be drawn back to the tenth century; however, in America the main reason why it is here is because of Britain’s influence. Laws regarding the death penalty traveled quickly into America and soon they were legal in every colony. The death penalty has been a part of history for a long period of time. The effectiveness of the death penalty in states where it is legal should encourage the sixteen states that do not have the death penalty re-instate it as a punishment. Innocent until proven guilty, as many people now realize that is the motto of the court systems in the United States. However, for those families that have family members being put through the process of death...An issue that has continually created tension in today’s society is whether the death penalty serves as a justified and valid form of punishment (House, R. 2009). In several parts of the world, the death penalty has been apportioned to those who have committed a variety of offenses from the time of ancient Babylon to present-day America. An instance of this can be seen in the Roman Empire made use of the death penalty liberally, as did the Church of the Middle Ages. Therefore as history tells us,...
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...to be a way to keep crime from happening. For the most part the majority of people believe this to be true. For most people punishment will inhibit them from committing crimes such as, stealing while their morals will steer them away from committing crimes such as, murder. What happens when a person does not fear the punishment or has no morals? That’s where there are gaps in our justice system. There is no way to completely stop crime, as long as people still have free will. For the most part, punishment does lead us a way from a life of crime. For those who have no fear or moral value, they will and should be punished accordingly for their crime. Capital punishment has been a controversial issue since the beginning of our nation’s history. Executions began in a much more inhumane way then what we see today. We began with hangings and as of 1888 New York began to build the first electric chair. The death sentence was evolving into a more humane a civil way to carry out a sentence. Further down the line we developed other ways such as cyanide gas, and what is legal in most states today, the lethal injection. Does the person who just raped and mutilated a fourteen year old girl deserve a human death? She didn’t die with humility or dignity. She died in cold blood. If that was your daughter how would you feel in respects to her killer receiving a lethal injection as his final sentence? Is the Death penalty the easy way out for these criminals? Should these people be rotting in...
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...‘ethikos’ which relates to the customary way to behave in society. Ethics is a branch of philosophy dates back to before 367 b.c. Famously in the history of ethics and philosophy were ‘’The Three Wise Greek Men’’ Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Socrates was a teacher of philosophy and Plato was Socrates student for approximately ten years, and when Socrates died, Aristophanes became Plato's student. Aristotle views were that ‘’ethics is a virtue of happiness, and that the pursuit of virtue is the highest and noblest aim for a human being’’ . Aristotle can be seen as saying ‘’ Nobody would choose to live without friends even if they had everything else they desired ‘’ (quoted from The Puzzle of Ethics- Peter Vardy pg 31). Socrates took a practical view on ethics, he was concerned with ‘’how an individual would live in order to achieve happiness’’. Socrates can be seem as saying; ‘’Think hard enough and you will always find that doing the right thing is best for you ‘’ ( quoted in Peter singers A companion to Ethics, Blackwell p. 125 ). Plato's view was much more in depth and most famously contradicts Socrates work. Plato believes ethics is ‘’ knowledge is the virtue of happiness ‘’ . Plato can be seen as saying ‘’ If you believe something is right than its right, but if you believe something is wrong but still go ahead , this is unethical’’ . ‘’An individual human being is the measure of all things’’ (quoted from The puzzle of ethics-pg 9 Peter Vardy). There is many different...
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...into account results from Nazi experiments? Dr. Robert Pozos founded the University of Minnesota’s Hypothermia Laboratory in 1977. Pozos used several volunteers for hypothermia experiments, but he would never allow their body temperature to drop below 95 degrees. Nazis allowed their victim’s temperatures to fall to 79.7 degrees before attempting to resuscitate them. Pozos discovered that the research Dr. Rascher had collected during the Third Reich from human experiments would close the gaps Pozos still needed in order to be successful. However, his attempt to publish his studies in the New England Journal of Medicine was promptly vetoed by the Journal’s editor, Dr. Arnold Relman. ''I don't see how any credence can be given to the work of unethical investigators. Given the source of the information and the way in which it was obtained, how can anyone believe it? How can anyone want to believe it?'' Relatedly, Dr. John Hayward, a biology professor at Victoria University in Vancouver, Canada, also conducted hypothermia research involving the Nazi data. "I don't want to have to use the Nazi data, but there is no other and will be no other in an ethical world. I've rationalized it a bit. But not to use it would be equally bad. I'm trying to make something constructive out of it. I use it with my guard up, but it's useful." In 1988, the administrator of the E.P.A., Lee Thomas, banned the use of Nazi data in an experiment involving phosgene gas following complaints from participating...
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