The X and Y game What is a game where you have four persons to a team‚ and each person shows an X and Y card each round and according to what each other person‚ including themselves shows they get a certain number of points added on or taken off? What is the meaning of this game? What does it show? This game shows how individual people act in a group. When every person in a group cooperates something gets done‚ but if people are out for themselves‚ and fail to recognize that they are in this together
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Jordan Dixon November 9‚ 2012 Justice by Michael J. Sandel Throughout life our morals are questioned numerous times and it is completely up to decide what is morally correct and what is logically correct. From that step it is then up to us to decide which one matters most to us. Merriam-Webster defines utilitarianism as “a doctrine that the useful is the good and that the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of its consequences; specifically: a theory that the
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sake of town-wide happiness? I honestly struggled with finding my perspective on these concepts. Everything I thought I had figured out about justice and morality was questioned when I brought it up on a large scale dealing with happiness and life-saving events. Additionally‚ another part of the book that made me question peoples’ reasoning with justice is Bentham’s theory of utilitarianism—the fact that we like pleasure and dislike pain. I agree that we all enjoy pleasure‚ but sometimes the pleasurable
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Could Death Row Inmates be a Viable Source for Donated Organs? Angela Rogers Ottawa University INTRODUCTION There is a high demand for organs and a shortage of donors in the US. We need to find a way to bridge the gap. Most Americans are wary of donating organs so why not allow convicted felons to do some good with the organs that they have? Death row inmates could be a viable source of transplantable organs. To discourage exploitation of death row inmates there should be provisions made and guidelines
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Ty McFarland 420 Dank Dr. Dayton‚ Ohio 45415 (937)-694-5804 bubbles12200@gmail.com Apologies from Death Row Maddox K. Ashley Approx words Judge Harring‚ Your wife‚ sir‚ was I believe my favourite victim. I’m writing to you from a dim‚ foul-odored‚ cramped cell. The walls are leaky and covered in mildew. Unlike your bedroom of course. How hard was it to get Meredith’s blood and other stains off of your walls? She deserved every single lash‚ kick‚ and stab that she received. I never
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it provides him or her with an equation. If I make decision A‚ there will be X positive consequences and Y negative consequences; if I make decision B there will be X positive consequences and Y negative consequences. Therefore‚ it would be morally correct to choose A or B based on the highest number of positive consequences or the lowest number of negative consequences. In the words of Michael Sandel in his book Justice‚ “Its (utilitarianism) main idea is simply stated and intuitively appealing:
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I am for death row because it is more effective than doing 20 years in jail. Eighty-eight percent of murder victims about 14‚960 victims in 1998 were 18 years of age or older. Fewer adults were murdered in the United States in 1998 than in any year since at least 1976. In 1998‚ about 1‚960 murder victims were under age 18. This level is substantially below that of the peak year of 1993‚ when 2‚880 juveniles were murdered. However‚ this decline only returned the level to that of 1988. The
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The Justice Game Thesis statements * Conflicting perspectives are often expressed by the common person‚ an individual may choose to accept one view point whilst in contrast to this‚ one may oppose – creating conflicting perspectives. Within the non-fiction text‚ ‘The Justice Game’‚ author Geoffrey Robertson has successfully revealed conflicting perspectives throughout various chapters. * Perspectives allow a subjective view on issues where an individual is influenced by personal values
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kinds of retributive justice. The classical definition embraces the idea that the amount of punishment must be proportional to the amount of harm caused by the offense. A more recent version‚ supported by Michael Davis‚ discharges this idea and replaces it with the idea that the amount of punishment must be proportional to the amount of unfair advantage gained by the wrongdoer. Davis introduced this version of retributive justice in the early 1980s‚ at a time when retributive justice was making a recovery
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the justifying and the sympathizing. The justifying side wants to see the villains get their punishment with death penalty‚ and the sympathizing side wants to remove death penalty. So what does a mother have to say about this matter with two sons on death row? Jacqueline Downs have two sons who both ended up on death row next to each other. But how can both her sons end up on the death row? As Jacqueline explains her kids and she were victims of a bad husband and father‚ who used violence on the
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