could save an individual from harm. I believe that lying is hardly justified unless it brings harm to an individual. Lying is not only just justified‚ but it is also considered a “moral duty” to protect someone from harm. In paragraph ten of “Its the Truth: Americans Conflicted About Lying‚” by NBC News‚ they state that “Not only is lying justified‚ it is sometimes a moral duty to protect‚ says Cohen. An obvious example is when you’re lying to protect someone from serious harm. But much less
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Lying is Never Justified Speech Would you like to be one of the sick people that lie as part of their daily lives? I’m sure that I wouldn’t. In the articles “ It’s the Truth: Americans Conflicted About Lying” by NBCNEWS.com and “ Rejecting All Lies: Immanuel Kant” by Sissela Bok‚ both authors suggest that lying is never justified. I agree with the author’s’ beliefs that nobody should ever have to lie. In the article “ It’s the Truth: Americans Conflicted About Lying” NBCNEWS.com suggest that lying
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Lies have powerful effects on all of us based on the lecture “The Truth about Lying” by Judith Viorst. At an early age‚ I found out that lies could change our opinion about the people that lie to us and their credibility. It is not necessary to lie since if we feel that the truth might hurt the other person‚ a polite silence should suffice. As Viorst Says‚ “I suffer most from the misconception that children can’t take the truth” (135). This reminded me of how hurt and devastated I was when I found
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Conditional on preferring the outcome from lying over the outcome from truth-telling‚ a person is sensitive to neither her own [monetary] gain from lying‚ nor how much [monetary] harm she causes the other side. Notice that aside from the preface of “preferring the outcome from lying”‚ the rest of the Hypothesis seems quite at odds with Gneezy’s Result. The reconciliation is that a significant fraction of Gneezy’s subjects prefer the outcome from lying to truth-telling in some experimental treatment(s)
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Spare Us Smokers There has been much debate recently in Trinidad and Tobago on whether smoking should be banned totally. The Minister of Health and the Cancer Society have‚ on separate occasions‚ promoted this call while tobacco companies rebutted vociferously in the media as well. The focus of this article is to prove that smoking should not be banned. To begin‚ the smoking of cigarettes and tobacco has been ‘linked’ by researchers to heart disease and cancer. The word ‘link’ is important
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Facts about Smoking Essay Many people in the United States smoke for many reasons. Some reasons include being stressed out‚ trying to be popular‚ or their friends are doing it. Other people know that smoking can shorten your life‚ cause bad breath‚ and increase risks of disease‚ etc. Many people in the United States today don’t smoke because they are aware of the risks of smoking. People who have smoked before are trying to give up smoking for good. Here are some truthful facts about smoking.
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Ban Smoking in Public Places Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States‚ and doing it in public is even worse because smokers not only harm themselves‚ but also those around them. I remember how my great uncle would always smoke in his house regardless of his surroundings. When his daughter visited him for a vacation‚ she brought her three year old daughter with her. The baby was healthy before coming to her grandpa’s house‚ but in less than two weeks‚ she
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Should Smoking Be Banned? Smoking has become one of the leading killers in the world ever since it was produced. It results in chronic diseases and in some cases even death of the individuals. Innocent people shouldn’t die because of it. According to various health reports published in medical journals‚ it has been clearly stated that a huge section of the society is under threat of facing premature deaths or grave diseases. There has been much research into smoking‚ why it should be
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Should smoking be banned? Since early times‚ smoking has been part of different cultures and religions in Africa and America‚ but later it spread in Europe and the rest of the world. This is an unhealthy and dangerous habit‚ which causes many problems often related not only to health. That is why there should be some limits. On the one hand‚ if smoking is banned‚ people will be able to put aside much bigger sums of their salaries‚ because they would not spend money on cigarettes and tobacco
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EXPERIMENT 2: SUSPENDED SOLIDS 1.0 OBJECTIVE This objective of this experiment is to determine the quantity of suspended solids in polluted water samples. 2.0 INTRODUCTION Water quality is vitally important in our daily life. However‚ due to water pollution‚ the quality of water is questionable for safe usage. In order to determine water quality‚ one of the indicator and measurement that can be used is by suspended solids (SS). Suspended solids is one type of physical water-quality measurement
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