Morality: The Pre-existing And Universal Code
.... morally right three thousand years ago is morally
right today and should be morally right three thousand years from now. Only
with universal principles can we as collective society discover what is right,
what is wrong, and what is best, therefore there exists not modern morality but
simply morality.
An empirical philosopher, W.T. Stace, argues that if we believe all
morals are culturally relative, it is impossible for us to judge what is best.
Although admitting he does not know what is best, he con .....
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Persuasive Essay: Overpopulation
.... often driven to war when they become too
numerous for their available resources. Ethnic and racial differences will grow
increasingly frequent and unresolvable. Increasing numbers in urban areas will
lower quality of life in cities around the world.
The precipitators of this complex issue are unlimited. Factors such as
poverty, food distribution, and government corruption are all important aspects.
No one will be unaffected by the repercussions of an overpopulated world. This
highly sensitive and compl .....
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Protection From Abuse And Neglect
.... scale association is limited to children so they can feel
free to express their experiences and ask questions openly to others without
having to worry about adult supervision. This may interest children to comment
on situations and on general conversation that they normally would be scared to
ask their parents. I feel that this is relevant to children in today's society
because these situations of abuse and neglect occur in many households, and
children either do not know their rights or fail to take act .....
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Psychological Egoism: Every Person Is Oriented Towards His (or Her) Own Welfare, And The Object Of Every One Of His Voluntary Actions Is Some Good To Himself
.... to himself, or for some other good he hopes for from
the outcome. This presents us with the old saying: "Do unto others as you would
want them to do unto you."
Social organization originates out of self interest. All society is for
gain, or for glory. It is not like we think it is—for love of our fellows.
Instead it is for self preservation. It is a sort of social contract. In a state
of nature we are at war with each other and life is solitary, poor, nasty,
brutish, and short. In a natural stat .....
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Reality Is Perception
.... sight for
information about their world. For instance fish in totally dark areas of the
ocean have no eyes and yet can still maneuver around in there environment by
sensing ripples in their area with special sense organs on their body. Birds
also seem to use the magnetic lines of the earth to navigate south for the
winter each year. It would be foolish to make the statement that all sensory
perception of the world is circumspect and is exactly the same for all creatures.
All animals on the planet ear .....
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The Power Of Language
.... to persuade. The propagandist gives a one-
sided message, accentuating the good points of one side and the bad points of
the other position. Propaganda is most widely distributed through public
speaking and use of the mass media. The propagandist speaks in an attempt to
persuade the audience to believe his way. With the support of the audience, the
speaker gains power.
Propaganda as an art of persuasion has been used for thousands of years.
In the fifth century BC, when Pericles addressed his fellow .....
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The Problem Of Evil
.... than why does he let so much evil exist? I could understand a little
bit of bad people and things to make the good stand out, but there is so much.
All the time in the news you hear about someone being murdered, children being
molested, a natural disaster striking a area and many people suffering and
dying, etc... This also shows that God cannot be all-powerful if lets all this
evil exist in the universe that he supposedly created.
The second solution to the problem of evil states that God all .....
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Welfare Reform: A Matter Of Justice
.... Medicaid,
requiring states to serve more people. They also increased the standards
required of nursing homes. This led to higher nursing home costs which were
passed directly back to the Medicaid program. The current average cost to care
for a patient in a nursing home is nine times greater than that of a single
dependent child. The price of medical care, in general, has drastically
increased. Expensive new technology and procedures are a large part of this
increase. The need for these costly new t .....
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Why Should I Be Moral?
.... quality of whole human life. We all have misconceptions about
happiness. Most of us believe that happiness is experiencing a lively feeling
of joy or pleasant feelings. We can be happy at one moment, but not the next.
Aristotle on the other hand said that true happiness includes pleasures, joys,
and successes as well as many pains, griefs, and troubles in ones life. A happy
life is not cause by the pleasures we've had, nor marred by the displeasures
we've had.
Aristotle also contended that children .....
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The Real Threat Of Nuclear Smuggling
.... bomb requires between three and 25 kilograms of enriched uranium or
between one and eight kilograms of plutonium. A Kilogram of plutonium occupies
about 50.4 cubic centimeters, or one seventh the volume of a standard aluminum
soft-drink can.
In addition to this, analysts have found that security is much to lax in
even the supposedly "most protected locations". For example, the Russian stores
in particular suffer from sloppy security, poor inventory management and
inadequate measurements. Then there .....
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The Adults Are Always Right?
.... Every syllable that comes out of the mouth of an adult is heard as ‘
nag.' For example:
Adults say: "clean your room! ."
Kids hear: "nag nag nag!"
Adults say: "Stop watching television."
Kids hear: "nag nag nag nag nag nag nag."
They think of us as being lazy, and irresponsible, selfish and useless.
Some adults quiver when they hear how we will one day run this world. What makes
us lazy, the fact that we watch an hour of television afte .....
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American Self Perception Vs. The Truth
.... freedom to pursue happiness. Every American will stand by the
line derived from the Constitution, "All men are created equal." In actuality,
the constitution outlined the freedom for rich white landowners to achieve
unchecked power and wealth. At the time of the framing of the constitution,
blacks were slaves thus all men were NOT created equal. Women were equally
excluded from the constitution as suffrage wasn't even a consideration at the
time. The only class groups which the American Constitution o .....
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An Explanation Of Terrorism
.... of hijackers to their country of origin, or to prosecute them in the
state where they were arrested. (The Terrorists 146) Atkins states that one of
the reasons it took so long to do anything about terrorism is that it is so hard
to define, and therefore just as hard to enforce. He also says Declarations and
conventions from the UN have lacked effective enforcement mechanisms, so they
have been ignored by member states and have been characterized as ‘largely
cosmetic. Basically, the UN is doing t .....
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Are Immigrants A Burden To The U.S?
.... rate. The loss of
jobs and lower wages are primarily aren't the effect of immigration. The loss
of jobs and lower wages are primarily an effect of manufatuers moving overseas
and federal economic policies. So, what are the jobs that immigrants are
supposedly stealing from us? Well, undocumented immigrants typically work in low
wage-jobs not filled by U.S. born workers.
As you can see, immigrants are not a burden to the U.S. We should not
stop all immigration.
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Effects Of Youth Crime
.... by kids, people under the age of
21. They do all sorts of crime, they murder one another, they steal things,
they paint graffiti on the wall. Crime is worse than it ever has been. It used
to be the mob that people were scared of, now it's the gangs. If you cross a
member of a gang, you can bet that his friends will get you back for him. Gang
wars are especially dangerous, it starts with just two people, one from one gang
and one from another gang. One of them does something to the other, like st .....
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