ABC Corporation MEMO AGBM1208B MGT 308/ Managing Diversity Harlen Williams‚ Jr. July 13‚ 2010 ABC Corporation Memo ABC Corporation strives to implement a multicultural corporation. Our corporation requires a workforce appreciative and helpful to individuals with ability‚ dedication and commitment for the advancement of the corporation. Achievement requires obtaining and keeping the most skilled individuals in the workforce – the most skillful and the most dedicated‚
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Griffin Eng. 093 March 23‚ 2012 Torture: Justified or Unjustified? Is torture justified? Does it make us feel safer? Most Americans would say that it is immoral to torture any human being for any reason. There are a few people left who would disagree with that and say that some deserve to be tortured in order to obtain information that could potentially save the lives of hundreds or thousands. According to Michael Levin torture may seem unconstitutional or barbaric to some but
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ENG 102-201 Argument Essay 10 March 2016 The Fight on Terrorism Torture is the intentional inflicting of severe pain and suffering on people to punish or intimidate them so that they will extract information (Doing Ethics). Torture is morally wrong if it is unjustifiable or does not serve a purpose. On the other hand‚ to protect and secure our country from extremist and other terrorist‚ it can be morally justified. Keeping torture quiet with the public and out of world news is crucial. If it got
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the philosophy of logic‚ philosophy of language‚ and the philosophy of science. In his article "The Case for Torture” published by Newsweek in 1982‚ Michael Levin is defending the use of torture as being necessary and justifiably in some extreme cases in order to preserve the greater good of human society. In connection with this he is analyzing the problematic issue of the usage of torture towards terrorists. In his opinion this should be a topic to be taken more and more into consideration also
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to Merriam-Webster.com‚ “Torture is defined as the act of causing severe physical pain as a form of punishment or as a way to force someone to do or say something.” While torture is widely criticized by the United Nations and Amnesty International‚ organizations that are supposedly for the progression of human rights‚ there is no denying that the United States‚ in compliance with the Central Intelligence Agency‚ has received valuable intel from the use of torture. Torture is sometimes a necessary
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stated purpose is the production of intelligence‚ cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel‚ unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture." That brings us the word torture. Torture can be used for many things and has many different forms but why use torture? The biggest reason torture is
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14th September 2013 Torture is a necessary evil. After reading this article and evaluating both sides of the argument‚ my opinion remains the same. I disagree that torture is necessary; it is a barbaric breach of human rights. After looking at statistics‚ only 8% of Guantanamo detainees were Al Qaeda fighters‚ this is a shockingly low percentage in proportion to the 517 Guantanamo that were detained. British laws have deemed torture illegal and yet at least 6 detainees alleged that British forces
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that it is in the US government’s right to torture the guilty terrorist because his knowledge could be used to save the lives of millions. On the other hand‚ others‚ such as Philip Heymann‚ who is a writer that had worked in the government field‚ firmly states that torture should never be used because the chance that it will produce true and useful information is nearly impossible and it is vastly more crucial to preserve the international bans on torture. Shirley Jackson elaborates on Heymann’s
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Imagine‚ you have a terrorist in custody‚ and this terrorist knows the location of a bomb that will detonate and end thousands of American lives‚ is it ethically justified to torture this terrorist in order to obtain the critical intelligence needed to locate and disarm the bomb‚ saving thousands of lives? This is a scenario called the ticking time bomb scenario‚ it may be an extreme scenario‚ but none the less‚ it is possible‚ would you let ethics get in the way of saving those people’s lives?
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Evaluation 2 Torture the word alone can start a heated argument‚ cause some to wince or even chill us to the bones from the sheer cruelty that the word stands for. Here in the United States we really look down on torture we view it as an archaic and barbaric form of punishment or interrogation. Brazil is one of these countries‚ though Brazil is one of the most influential democracies in regional and global affairs. The current president of Brazil was a past torture victim from back in the
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