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    suicide in the trenches

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    and stanza 2 - as representing war’s true realities The piece is written in the form of an Iambic tetrameter ~ the same meter as nursery rhymes ~ this makes the tone of the piece sound positive and jubilant. This tone juxtaposes with the theme ’suicide’ and the content of stanza 2 - so it becomes clear that Sassoon is being ironic and attacking the earlier views of the war - held by ’smug faced crowds at home’ The tone created by the tetrameter‚ reveals an ironic subtext within the 1st stanza‚

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    The essential part of utilitarianism‚ whether it is Act or Rule‚ is to promote the greatest overall utility for the given situation. If we look in terms of Utilitarianism‚ one would be in favor of killing Tom to save the other four children. Even though‚ Tom would be killed‚ he would promote overall utility by saving four people through his one body. This reminds me a lot of the Trolley problem we studied in Unit five. They killed one man to save multiple. This may be considered immoral in a way

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    Socrates' Suicide

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    He was sentenced to death by ingestion of hemlock poison. Although some say that he was offered an escape plan he chose to follow the law of the land and accepted his punishment. Due to his acceptance I do not believe that he committed suicide. I feel that possibly deep in the recesses of his mind Socrates felt that he had committed a crime and that this was a punishment in which he deserved. I could also see the other side of the coin and that he may have decided that he was better

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    Second Writing Assignment‚ PHILO 120 Professor Shelley‚ Tue/Thur 230pm Mill is an heir of an intellectual movement in England known as Utilitarianism; utilitarianism is concerned with the acquisition of pleasure and elimination of pain. John Stuart Mill follows the guidelines of utilitarianism in order to decide if certain actions are moral. Utilitarianism states that a person should perform the action that produces the most pleasurable outcome for every person involved. In order to accurately

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    "Utilitarianism is the best approach to extra marital sex" Extramarital sex occurs when a married person engages in sexual activity with someone other than their marriage partner‚ this would also be known as infidelity or audltary which had the consequence of being stonned to death in the times of Jesus " If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife-with the wife of his neighbour-both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10). The negative association with sex

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    scrutinizes the condemning of the inferior race by means of exercising the belief of utilitarianism‚ and the social discourse valued in the predetermined designation of the extinction and eradication of an entire race. This deviation poses a critical synopsis on the questioning of the said proposition in such that the previously universally dominant Kantian principles regarding the issue of humanitarian

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    Foxconn Suicides

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    Apple Inc. the designer and maker of electronic products found itself in the middle of a scandal that was formed within its organizational ecosystem (Daft‚ 2012‚ p. 71). Starting in January 2010 employees at Foxconn an electronics manufacturer in China began to take their own lives in an attempt to bring attention to the poor working conditions‚ overcrowding‚ and long work hours (Daft‚ 2012‚ p. 108). These events are an example of actions or events that can originate within the international dimension

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    made. Ultimately the pilot had to jettison Marilyn out of the ship in order to save himself and the other six men that needed the fever serum. We are going to look at this situation from Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative‚ Mills principle of Utilitarianism‚ the number principle‚ and my comparing it other scenarios discussed in class. Categorical Imperative‚ a term coined by Immanuel Kant‚ argues that moral requirements are based on a standard of rationality. Immorality is a violation to the categorical

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    Utilitarianism theory exists on the views that an individual should pursue his own interest/beliefs‚ despite the existence of theories that define some acts right or wrong. Individuals should stick to this principle despite the consequences. In terms of deontological theory‚ it insists on adhering to moral rules that exist in a certain system‚ which are independent. Virtue theory exists on the basis that the role of a person’s character determines the virtues and morals upheld by that individual

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    Perhaps quite eloquently‚ in John Stuart Mill’s text Utilitarianism he noted that “there are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge more unlike what might have been expected‚ or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers‚ than the little progress which has been made in the decision of controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong” (Mill 1:1-6). In summary‚ it is rather evident that

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