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- 13281: An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs, Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised Harm Principle"
- ... to support these jails, and the loss, or at least diminution, of a productive citizen. In order to buy drugs illegally, the user may be forced to expose himself to the fringes of the criminal world--something he would never do under any other circumstances. If drugs were legalized, the criminal stigma would be removed from their purchase, possession, and use. The government would collect taxes on drug sales and, conversely ... There would be taxes, quality control, and distribution issues to deal with, and the government would be at the helm. Therefore, Mills' Principle would still be "violated," and the country would have a slew of new problems to deal with due to the availability of legal drugs and lack of recourse with which to address them.
- 13282: Reviving The Death Penalty
- Reviving The Death Penalty "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is one of the oldest and most famous sayings in the world. It comes from the Mosaic Law in the Bible and it is an edict that has ruled millions for thousands of years. Today the issue of capital punishment has our nation split down the middle ... Another poll taken by Tom Kuntz, author of "Should We Kill Those Who Kill" reflects the public view on the deterrent effect of the death penalty. According to a poll of 651 registered voters in New York, 57% feel the death penalty does deter murder, 40% feel it does not, and 3% had no answer. What citizens feel and why they feel it is up for debate, one thing there is ...
- 13283: Pedophilia: Causes and Typologies
- ... prisons where rapists and murderers are commonplace. These offenders are shunned in every aspect of our society, yet there is no consensus as to the causes of this behavior. Sexual abuse of children is not new, and has not always been socially taboo. The ancient Greeks and Romans used children for sexual gratification(Langevin, 1983). In Greece, it was commonplace for adolescent males to be forced into sexual relationships with mature ... that they have endured. There is also a pedophile enhancement movement, with confessed pedophiles insisting that their behavior is not wrong or immoral. Organizations dedicated to the social acceptance of sex with children are not new, yet have had a large upstart in membership since the early 1970's(Charon, 1979). Because of the extreme sensitivity of the subject, research in this field is quite underdeveloped. Researchers have even had trouble ... sexual objects as well(Langevin, 1983). Using children in a sexual manner to cope with anxiety is reinforced and becomes a normal behavior pattern. Pedophilia as an Addiction Pedophilia as an addiction is a fairly new way of examining this type of behavior. In the early 1980's researchers began to ask questions about pedophiliacs' behavior and found that parallels could be drawn between this and other addictive behaviors. Patrick ...
- 13284: Laws of War
- ... the general location of such a conflict. But, when the conflict is over, and if war crimes have been committed, how then are criminals of war brought to justice? The International Military Tribunals held after World War II in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945 and in Tokyo on 3 May 1946 are excellent examples of how such crimes of war are dealt with. (Roberts and Guelff 153-54) But, rather than ... establish Israel's right to judicial processing of alleged Nazi war criminals. To understand the complications involved in Israel placing suspected Nazi war criminals on trial, lets review the history of Israel's situation. During World War II the Nazis were persecuting Jews in their concentration camps. At this time the state of Israel did not exist. The ending of the war meant the ending of the persecution, and when the ... S. to extradite Nazis for trial [in Jerusalem] is an important step. "This creates the opportunity for at least tacit admission of Israel's special position with regard to crimes against Jews anywhere in the world," he says.2 After much negotiations the United States arrested Demjanjuk in November of 1983. On April 15, 1985 United States District Judge Frank Battisti ruled in favor of Demjanjuk's extradition. After the ...
- 13285: Something Happened! - The Sexual Harassment Suit of the Nancy Hart and the Police of City of Peabody
- ... Peabody to settle a sexual harassment suit filed by a female Police Officer. She claimed she was singled out and discriminated against. The City of Peabody and the Chief of Police, started by hiring six new Police Officers on September 3, l991. Which included two female and four male officers. When the City hired them as Police Officers, all six were informed of one of the conditions the job. One of ... Agree to keep their weight in proportion to their height A violation of any the above conditions would be grounds for dismissal from the Police Department without the right of Union protection. After the six new Police Officers graduated from the Police Academy, they were assigned to various shifts. They were to be evaluated and inspected while on a one year probation period. When the end of probation period was coming ... feel it was proper or any of his business what she weighed. The Chief stated he was the Chief of Police and he had every right to ask her what he wanted and under the new Fitness and Wellness Act passed by the State he could ask her. She then answered the Chief's question by giving him 5 pounds over what she weighed when she first was hired The ...
- 13286: The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
- ... as a minimum drinking age is a much more realistic goal. The theory is that by 19 most people have completed or are at least out of high school and are out functioning in a world much older than that of their days in school. They are expected to be more mature, and to act as adults in all other ways. They can smoke, marry, have sexual relationships, have children, buy ... age is too high". The Observer. http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/observer/083096/ forum1.html (Febuary 18, 1998: visited site September 30, 1998). Gordis, Enoch. "Alcohol research and social policy: an overview." Alcohol Health & Research World September 1996: 208. Toomey, Traci L., Carolyn Rosenfeld, and Alexander Wagenaar. The minimum legal drinking age: history, effectiveness, and ongoing debate." Alcohol Health & Research World September 1996: 213. Tumulty, Brian. "Should the Drinking Age Be a Federal Issue?." Gannet News Service 24 June 1996, eastern ed.: S11.
- 13287: Illegial Aliens
- ... Here's a little story to imagine: you've planned everything to make your life perfect-a well-paid job, a loving wife, and two adorable children. As you retire early, and move to your new home, you can't help but feel a warm breeze of contentment as you're cruising along, on a summer afternoon. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a drunken illegal alien with tequila on his breath ... Nova, killing your family instantly, and leaving you mortally wounded. Now, I assume most all of you have seen Independence Day, so you are probably familiar with ascendancy, and people trying to take over the world. There is a similar scenario going on in the United States today. Conspirators endeavor to obtain what is not theirs. Their beguiling apparitions are nothing but clever masks, which proclaim hope, and freedom. Only those ...
- 13288: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... of the Soviet Union, for example, regard individual privacy as trivial when compared to the needs of the state. If the United States is to be persuasive in promoting freedom in other parts of the world, it must respect the privacy of its own citizens. Sometimes it is hard to do this because what goes on in people's private lives may seem offensive. But, according to U.S. traditions, there ... 347. LEXICON PUBLICATIONS. Philippines, 1979 2. Lorimer, Lawrence; "Marijuana" Encyclopedia Year Book 1993. p214-215. GROLIER INCORPORATED. Canada, 1993 3. Snyder, Solomon. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. Series 2. LEGALIZATION: A DEBATE. CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS. New York, 1988
- 13289: Marijuana
- ... variations in potency and the irregularity in absorbtion. The time delay before the onset of the possible effects of marijuana lowered it's popularity as a medicine as did the introduction of a variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, twine ...
- 13290: Q/A: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... National archives, published reports. 4. Archeologists report that cannabis was possibly the first plant cultivated by humans - about 8,000 B.C. - and was used fororinen, paper and garments. Source: Columbia University, History of the World. It was being smoked in China and India as early as 2700 B.C. 5. Turkish smoking parlors were popular in both Europe and America, as well as the Middle and Far East, as recently ... 19. In another famous study, Heath/Tulane (1974), wild monkeysysere brutally captured, then virtually suffocated in marijuana smoke over a period of 90 days. Source: National Institute of Health. 20. Examples: the "LaGuardia" Committee Report (New York, 1944) and President Richard Nixon's Blue Ribbon "Shafer" Commission (1972).
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