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- 5881: Marijuana Should Be Legalized
- ... do not harm others...the government should not outlaw alcohol or opium. To do so would be to substitute the government's tastes and moral judgments for those of the individual, and unjustified violation of personal freedom by the state" (Dennis 81). This is a good argument for the legalization of marijuana. As long as the government keeps marijuana outlawed, a portion of the people's freedom would be taken away ...
- 5882: Random Drug Testing
- ... is the job of the school to monitor the study habits of a student and make sure that they are staying on task. However, it is not the job of the school to monitor the personal lives of the students and the activities which they may be participating in at home. The government has created a separate system for dealing with that, called the law enforcement system. The school system should ...
- 5883: The Prohibition
- ... may be of some help to you. Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve (Thorton, 15). On Midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the personal habits and customs of most Americans suddenly came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor was put to an end. Shortly ...
- 5884: Capital Punishment: The Only Defense
- ... the punishment of the innocent. Maldistribution of any punishment among those who deserves it is irrelevant to its justice or morality. Punishments are imposed on a person, not a race or economic group. Guilt is personal. The only question that needs to be asked is, does the person who is to be executed deserve the punishment? And that is up to our justice system. Equality in short seems morally less important ...
- 5885: Capital Punishment
- ... row. Supporters of capital punishment say that society has the right to kill in defense of its members, just as an individual has the right to kill in self defense for his or her own personal safety. This analogy is somewhat doubtful, however, as long as the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to violent crimes has yet to be proven. In the United States, the main objection to ...
- 5886: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... relieve the pain suffered by AIDS patients. Despite all this great relief, one question remains unanswered, what about the side effects? Exactly how harmful and addicting is this stuff? My Side: (The Important Stuff) My personal opinion: Marijuana should remain illegal because of the enormous side effects and addiction that results after using the drug. My first fact to back my opinion would have to be this, marijuana is what it ...
- 5887: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere. However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and ...
- 5888: Capital Punishment
- ... row. Supporters of capital punishment say that society has the right to kill in defense of its members, just as an individual has the right to kill in self defense for his or her own personal safety. This analogy is somewhat doubtful, however, as long as the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to violent crimes has yet to be proven. In the United States, the main objection to ...
- 5889: The Insanity Defense
- ... such as disease of the mind, know, and the nature and quality of the act. The Irresistible Impulse Test This rule excludes from criminal responsibility a person whose mental disease makes it impossible to control personal conduct. Unlike the M'Naghten Rule, the criminal may be able to distinguish between right and wrong, but may be unable to exercise self-control because of a disabling mental condition. Just as the M ...
- 5890: Mozart
- ... Italian sculptors, stucco workers, and painters. The dominant architect and architectural historian was Italian-trained Johann Fischer von Erlach(1656-1723), whose densely decorated structures still stand out today. He planned to achieve this by writing music for the public: operas, symphonies, and concertos featuring himself as pianist. Although public performances were less frequent than today, they were for that reason on a more lavish scale. Of a set of piano ...
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