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- 10941: Illegal Drugs
- ... ruin the body and mind so badly and quickly that no one should try them. We have law aginst drug is so that the people who use dangerous drugs are putting themselves at a very high risk. They risk their health and their lives. Since they are breaking laws they also but themselves at the risk of getting arrested. They risk their freedom and their future all for drugs. Each year ...
- 10942: Murder
- ... a living organism, yes; but so is the sperm that provides of its genetic code, and the egg that provides the other half. A plant is a living organism, but is not treated with such high reverence. The fetus is not a living person, and thus abortion is not "unlawful killing of another human being." A woman has rights over her own body, and should be allowed to do with it ...
- 10943: The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
- ... control our government decided that when one becomes 21, one is magically transformed into a responsible person capable of handling the burden that comes with the right to consume alcohol. The drinking age is too high in this country. Why enact laws to prohibit an act that will be ignored by many of our peers? The opposition may say that the higher drinking age discourage teenagers and young adults from consuming ...
- 10944: The Death Penalty
- ... primarily because minorities commit more murders, but because they are more often sentenced to death when they do. Poor people are also far more likely to be death sentenced than those who can afford the high costs of private investigators, psychiatrists and expert criminal lawyers. Indeed, capital punishment is "a privilege of the poor," said Clinton Duffy, former warden at California's San Quentin Prison. Some observers have pointed out that ...
- 10945: Date Rape
- ... for years. There is a thin line between what is known as "mutual consent" and "date rape." They can be confusingly similar because a women may give consent at the time, but if she is high or drunk, though, she may find the next day that she did not want to have sex. It is difficult to say when a woman has given her consent because in many cases, at least ...
- 10946: Rape
- ... women with a complete list of behaviors that precipitate rape. Social training about what is proper, as well as what is powerful and macho, teaches women to be victims and men to be aggressors. The high incidence of rape in this country is a result of the power imbalance between men and women. Women are expected to assume a subordinate relationship to men. Consequently, rape can be seen as a logical ...
- 10947: Capital Punishment
- ... the other resting on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. If we stand back from this description and make an attempt at evaluation, one point is crucial. The love ethic requires a high degree of moral achievement and maturity. It is more suitable for small, closely-knit communities in which members know each other personally and in some depth. Forgiveness and reclamation flourish best in a setting in ...
- 10948: The Threat of Death
- ... prison, what will possibly keep that person from doing the unthinkable (Van Den Haag 68). If a person is afraid for their life, then the stakes for their actions are much higher, probably even too high for most people. Many psychologists believe that these "stakes" do not even have to be in conscious thought for them to work. The theory is that a person's conscience weighs out many factors in ...
- 10949: White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime
- ... we've discussed, the US education system is in a state of crisis. Schools do not have adequate funding to educate the kids. This is especially a problem in urban areas, where the alternative to school is life on the streets. Social services are also being eliminated, giving many no other option but to stay in poverty. Healthcare is a fantasy for many Americans, and yet our government can justify constructing ...
- 10950: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... because it is built into the system that those in the predominant race will be more concerned about crime victims of their own race, as stated by Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh Law School (As cited in Gest, 1986, 25). Because of the immense possibility of discrimination in sentencing in capital punishment cases, each stage of prosecution must be controlled as much as possible. Although these offenders are the ...
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