Perhaps rationally‚ many are skeptical that voting is a worthwhile practice. This is why‚ especially in the months leading up to an election‚ we are encouraged to vote by signs and posters‚ social media campaigns‚ our peers‚ and our government. Some maintain that voting is a ‘civic duty’ and a meaningful exercise in self-expression. Others contend that we should vote in pursuit of a democratic ideal‚ and still others argue that we should vote out of respect for those who have defended our rights
Premium Election Ethics Morality
An Argument Against Monarchy Monarchy as a governmental system clearly has numerous downfalls for the majority of people. The working class (bourgeoisie) rarely wins. It puts people into a hierarchical system based not on the merit of their character and work ethic but instead from the family they were born into. Those born into the few available positions of power in a monarchy benefit the most. This system can function and create civilizations that exude power and wealth but at a price
Premium Democracy Political philosophy Monarchy
necessarily involve killing‚ and torturers necessarily have the power of life or death over their victims. Torture is similar to killing in that both interrupt and render impossible the normal conduct of human life. However‚ it does not follow from this that being tortured is less preferable than being killed. Nor does it follow that torturing someone is morally worse than killing them. Americans are ignoring a host of horrific conditions that inmates are subjected to be realistic (our post
Premium Osama bin Laden Central Intelligence Agency Torture
Through the remainder of this debate please keep in mind that in reference to the syllogism I provided my opponent explicitly agrees that if the premises are true‚ then the conclusion follows. Miles addresses evil in two types; Moral and Natural. Based on my arguments it seems obvious that the evil in which I am referencing is natural. Indeed‚ all of the examples I gave were natural. This is important as the word evil in the syllogism I provided is in reference to evil as I argued it. That is to
Premium
Socrates’ argument Socrates sits in a prison cell‚ sentenced to death. His wealthy friend Crito has come to speak with him as he waits for a ship from Delos to return and allow executions to begin. Socrates knows that he‚ “must die the day after the ship arrives (Plato‚ 44).” Socrates also knows that he is not guilty of the crimes he was convicted of‚ stating‚ “There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now‚ and none of their accusations are true (Plato 22).” It is in this context
Premium Plato Philosophy Socrates
conclude that‚ “like handedness‚ society can suppress the behavior associated with sexual orientation (homosexuality in this case)‚ but we cannot change its biological basis (Hamer & Copeland 1994; Kalat 1998)” (Good‚ Hafner‚ and Peebles). If this is the actual case‚ then just as a person would not discriminate against an innate left handed person‚ one should not discriminate against an innate
Premium Homosexuality Sexual orientation LGBT
human race by controlling which people become parents. I believe that the government should not be allowed to see if future children have good or bad genes. In the past we have seen a nation try to do this to others‚ and that nation is Germany. Hitler only wanted a certain type of people to be on this earth‚ and he killed off everybody else that he believed did not have good genes. The question is‚ is history going to repeat itself? Even though eugenics can improve someone’s life‚ the government should
Premium Eugenics Charles Darwin Race
President Bush on Thursday signed into law a bill that would make it a separate crime to kill or harm an unborn child during an assault on the mother. "As of today‚ the law of our nation will acknowledge the plain fact that crimes of violence against a pregnant woman often have two victims‚" Bush said before the signing of the measure. "The death of an innocent unborn child has too often been treated as a detail in one crime but not a crime in itself‚" the president said. The Unborn Victims
Premium Abortion Pregnancy Supreme Court of the United States
Kelcey PHIL 1320 Brant September 23‚ 2010 An Argument against Egoism I shall argue that the ideas of both psychological and ethical egoism are fundamentally flawed and should not be practiced. Egoism is flawed because it ignores the fact that people have a predisposition for compassion toward others that cannot be completely expelled from their motives of action. Egoism is also flawed due to the fact that altruism cannot coexist with egoism; therefore‚ because there is altruism in the world
Free Ethical egoism Egoism Individualism
This point of view sounds convincing at first because this propaganda poster amongst many others lead to the women rights movement which was a movement that impacted society in a positive way. However‚ the true sole purpose of the poster was to make factory work more acceptable for women. The “We can do it!” poster was not illustrated to provide women with a positive image of what it was to be at work. Before World War II‚ women had to work outside the home as there was no men to do the hard jobs
Premium World War II Gender Woman