However‚ I personally lean towards opposition against DOMA. Though I can understand the ties that marriage has to religious institutions‚ I agree with President Barack Obama’s conception that there can be both religious and civil version of marriage (Pelts‚ 2014)‚ which means that marriage does not have
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professionals face the ethical dilemma of whether or not they should end a patient’s misery. Patient’s rights are always the top priority‚ doctors are taught to find every possible way to treat and cure the patient‚ but the possibility of the patient being irremediable to what extent is the health care professionals willing to go to give the patient their wishes? Many people believe that euthanasia is a patient’s right. According to ProCon.org‚ “… a terminally ill person has a protected liberty
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As a result‚ such an argument works in favor of the employer and eliminates the issues that organizations face with union employment since workers cannot hold the management hostage. If employees demonstrate they risk being dismissed and others getting hired. Further‚ through the employment-at-will clause‚ employers can escape unnecessary lawsuits that lead to loss of income from litigation expenses. The Arguments against At-Will Agreements The at-will agreements allow employers ease of hiring as
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Definitions of euthanasia abound in the medical community. John Keown in his book Euthanasia‚ Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation‚ creates a succinct definition of euthanasia based on various understandings of the process‚ "Euthanasia involves doctors making decisions which have the effect of shortening a patient’s life and these decisions are based on the
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on attending college after high school. I believe that for all high school graduates‚ college is a must to achieve a comfortable life. Most people do not want to be “just another statistic” but in this case‚ I would not mind at all. In “The Case Against College‚”an article written by Linda Lee‚ she discusses the expense and inconvenience of sending a child to college. I do agree with Lee that college is very expensive and not worth the money. In high school‚ I have worked hard to keep my GPA relatively
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The Argument against Drug Therapy in Children with ADHD There has been a great increase of interest in the treatment of Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children from a scientific perspective as well as from a societal standpoint. The attention on this disorder has been reflected in the number of carried out researches‚ books‚ and scientific articles that explain the best treatment options for this common childhood disorder. In the same manner‚ big progress has been accomplished
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The debate between Physicalism and Anti-Physicalism has been an on going argument for a good amount of time. Physicalism is said to be the view that the all things are physical or they rely on other objects that are physical. Many philosophers who are said to be or seem to be anti-physicalists have argued against this theory. Anti-physicalists stance on the matter is that anything that pertains to the mind or the conscious cannot depend on physicality nor is physicality. Nagel has a stance on his
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both for and against the biotechnical process of cloning. Among the arguments presented‚ some were persuasive‚ and some were not. With anything in life‚ there are flaws‚ and that is the case with cloning. The topic of cloning presents many issues against cloning‚ for one to think about to form an opinion on the subject. The first argument that is presented revolves around the safety of cloning. Many people are concerned with how safe cloning is for the environment. The next argument deals with the
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Arguments Supporting Torture to Protect America’s Security When at Risk Justifying the needs of implementing various methods of torture is strongly a recommended option to protecting America’s security and American citizens. While the debate of whether the use of torture is valid to protect the United States of America overall‚ supporters of the argument strongly argue that interrogating terrorists is only useful when various torture methods are involved. During one of the United States of America’s
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Debate against Hitchens’s Concepts of Religion and Politics One of the most controversial man‚ Christopher Hitchens‚ in his letters‚ “Letters to a Young Contrarian” (2001)‚ implies that people of the contemporary society should avoid thinking other than for themselves by taking on the pathway of being a contrarian. His purpose is to help “individuals on how they think‚ and not what they think by making them a more independent and questioning person” (63). The letters take us through a pathway
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