A person who commits a crime should have to pay for the consequences. ... " (Two concepts if rules by John Rawls page 5) If we consider the job of a judge, they must sentence criminals to a certain punishment based on the crime they committed. ... Such judge has punished a criminal based on a utilitarian justification of the legal punishment of such crime. ... While in a retributivist justification we consider the punishment of a crime to be punished based on severity. ... No crime should ever go un-punished. ...

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Some people believe that the mental state of a person or the motive for that person committing a crime should be factors when sentencing time comes. Others think that no matter the situation, a crime is a crime, and no compassion should be felt for the guilty. In the studies of philosophy these beliefs are put into two categories: utilitarian, witch would give leeway to the guilty depending on the circumstances, and Kantian, were a crime is a crime, no matter the motives involved. ... It is based on a belief that reason is the final authority for morality. ... The law says that a crime is a cr...

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But his real life of crime began when his parents divorced. ... Abagnale's most famous crime was impersonating a Pan Am pilot for two years. ... At this level, the pre conventional level, moral reasoning is based on avoiding punishment. ... The Learning Theory is based upon the principles of behavioral psychology. ... This theory states that crime is learned behavior. ...

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Smith have committed a crime together and were caught. ... Considering we are friends from the neighborhood and would take the time to develop a plan to commit a crime together shows unity and I would never expect a friend to rat me out so to say in the event of capture. ... But he would like my choice based on his Golden Mean, which is a moral guide that directs man choices between under-quality and over-quality. ... In his theory he also states that decisions are based on sensation, desire and reason.... Reason is the ability to make decisions based on knowledge of situation and it is said...

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This relies on the idea that greater social help will lead to a decrease in the rate of crime. ... The morals ingrained in the more stable Northern communities do not find this behavior acceptable and argument-based homicide is therefore more common in less stable communities. ... While social organization is clearly a factor, the more marked distinction is based on region rather than social organization. In the West and South, greater stability within a community would not have the effect of reducing argument-related homicides because increasing community stability seems to condone these a...

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All codes of laws are based on the same principle, but are not quite as violent. ... They are still a bit violent in some cases but are very much like today's punishment for crimes. ... So we take a different approach to these crimes. ... We have a more refined and sensible approach to crime and punishment. ... The Hittite laws gave us the basis of monetary payments and what we base most court cases on today. ...

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Is the law based on morality? ... Laws enforce those expectations and rules based on what is right or wrong. ... Is it morally passable for us to kill a person and call it justice or should it be our morals that force us to disagree with this allowable crime. ... Yes, he should pay for his crimes, but it is hard not to feel sorry for him all the same. ... Jones's examination of Smith and the medical journal article exonerate Perry Smith for his crimes because of his severe mental illness. ...

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(Hart, 1968) According to Hart, the inadequacies of theories which attempt to justify punishment based on a single principle can be met by one that incorporates partly discrepant principles by separating the distinct questions involved in justifying the social institution. ... He claims, in fact, that denunciation of the crime is not a justification for punishment. ... It has the socially beneficial aim of deterring crime. ... When a crime is committed, though, the victim and community react with feelings of extreme disapproval which they want both to express and to communicate to the criminal...

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Feingold argued against capital punishment based on the theory that the government made too many mistakes and is more likely to let an innocent suffer. ... However, how can anyone call capital punishment a cruel and unusual punishment when compared with the criminals heinous crimes? ...

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However, after the events on September eleventh just over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that the one thing we revere the most is our freedom and ability to choose in a democratically based republic. It is this ability to choose, and the mutual respect of other people's right to choose based in their own beliefs which makes picking and finding one single, moral, and ethical law to govern any situation a difficult task. ... It is ridiculous to say that our technology has advanced to the point at which we know the child can survive outside of the womb, and not consider that the te...

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In Euthyphro, his father committed the crime of murder, and his claim was that it was just and that the murdered man had killed a slave. ... Everything we do when forced to make decisions based on emotion or sentiment rather then logical. ... Each person may have a different answer but each person is answering based on what their emotions are telling them. This applies to the case because the courts are seeing that he had sex with an eleven year old girl and they are making their decisions based on their emotions. ... Therefore when he is out of the veil of ignorance and commits the crime he ...

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Especially for wives whose husbands have perpetrate such crimes or for parents whose daughters have resorted to such jobs as a mean of earning extra cash, wiping out prostitution will definitely do just to them. ... Moreover, morality is generally based on the one's beliefs, hence there is no definite right or wrong to prostitution, just that generally it is not accepted. ...

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The Importance of Law The Law. Those two words may strike fear in the minds of many people living in today's society. The truth is that the law is not implicated to create fear or scare society's individuals; it is in place as a basis for society. Our society uses the law and law enforcement...

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Superficial Moral Systems Exposed in Lord of the Flies, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Letter, and Pygmalion "The superficial nature of human moral systems" is a valid concern in society today. ... This very concept allows the idea to follow that the compassion that the charitable seem to have is based on appearances rather than an actual concern. In Crime and Punishment, the semi-charitable acts of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov seem to support the hypocrisy that is inherent in most acts of human kindness. ...

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Absolutism, on the other hand, believes that right and wrong are based on a truth that doesn't vary. ... Through experience, education, religion, and morality humans develop morals based on social and religious ethics. ... Unbeknown to them he was a suspect for vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of a crime. ... Michael's parents must look beyond their sensations and realize that their son has committed a serious crime and that it is God's will for him not to be punished, but corrected. ... Michael drove his car while he was intoxicated, ran a red light, fled th...

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One could suppose one could be more able that another based on experience, education, strength and other such scales of judgment but by that reasoning Goliath surely should have beaten David. ... The corporation that maintains all levels under a strong ethical code through discipline has an advantage as their employees are less likely to commit crimes resulting in losses of billions of dollars. ... Such is market share because they already have a consumer base that will stick with the corporation and the corporation's power from the retailers of their product will certainly give tha...

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White was later reinstated to work under Dudley to do unofficial police work, beating up members of organized crime. He does not seem to mind the dirty work and does not question, because it falls in line with his cause, which is to clean up and keep organized crime out of the city. ... They too are humans with emotions, making decisions based on their own self-interests. ... Although White was not recognized for his efforts in resolving the crime, he intended to only fight for what was "right" staying true to his goal from the beginning. ...

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Angelo believes that he can purify and reform society by punishing every natural and comparatively harmless transgression as a capital crime. The play show's how a good man like Angelo will not hesitate to commit a 3 crime against morality as soon as a purely sensual passion takes possession of him. ... Claudio explains to Lucio his crime. ... In Shakespeare's world the fact that Angelo's crime is exceptionally dreadful suggests strongly that he will be forgiven, particularly in light of the play's title. ... The structure is based around secret identities ...

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Since the number of people who accept abortion as a normal procedure is about equal to the number those who think of abortion as a crime, there have been a lot of steps taken against abortion, and many in its defense as well. ... The best way for someone to refer to abortion on an ethical basis would probably be through the description and evaluation of the subject based on two of the most known theoretical approaches: those of Kant's and of Utilitarianism (Act and Rule). ... As is the case with many issues in a utilitarian system, the rightness or wrongness of an act in question is b...

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The American economy at this time is at an all time high, and "the novel is appropriately set in [this] get-rich-quick decade that brought about the organization of crime as a concomitant of Prohibition" (Gatsby X). ... Scott Fitzgerald clearly shows through his use of his characters and literary devices in The Great Gatsby, that this is clearly a novel based on how the American Dream is inevitably crushed beneath the harsh reality of life, because of a society which is robbed of its social and moral values, leaving many people's lives without meaning or purpose. ...

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As a society over the years we have all tried our best to present a standard and have based it on some form of general knowledge. ... His crimes were not morally right and his entire followers were punished, but he got his view out there as morally right in Germany. ... Summing it up, one can do what is morally right for themselves based on the feeling it gives them regardless of good or bad. It shows moral standards are formed more based on the appetite of the pleasure than its ethics. ...

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Relativism is based on the notion that there are no universal moral principles. ... Because there are no universal principles, it is unfair to judge another based on one's own in this line of thinking. ... This theory focuses on the feelings of an individual; an individual creates his or her own morality based on their feelings. ... While there is no question that the individual committed the crime, they are given leeway when it comes to retribution. ...

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Despite the fact that Rich recognizes that he has, "lost his innocence" (74), he fails to catch himself, his crimes becoming more and more grievous. ... Rich displays the folly of the ambitious in the face of inducement, while the Common Man's acceptance of treachery on his account is a nod from Bolt regarding how your average person may be susceptible to greed-based persuasion. ...

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Also, parents can censor lyrics for children based on their family's values, but there is no direct reason why the government should be censoring lyrics. ... How can serious social problems like violent crime, racism or suicide be solved by covering children's ears?" ...

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When creating a work of fiction that is based on a specific historical time and place the author must neccesarily invite moral comparisons between the world they have created and the society it represents, thus making a black and white moral interpretation seem difficult, if not impossible, due to morality's cultural specifity. ... His ideology is based on an intellectual grounding that survives on the idea of death as being a means to separate oneself from society, and thus gain superiority over the masses. ... The mental insight Conrad gives us to the working of the professors mind cou...

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