Hobbes believes one must fully submit themselves in return for all basic necessities needed in a society, like laws and power to enforce those laws.  ... Contrary to how Hobbes's society has subjective morality, depending on how you view it. ... If one of your rights in being threatened, your life for example, you have the right do whatever you need to in order to preserve yourself, and you can disregard and forget the right of somebody else. ... However, with flaws in human nature, the ability for something like this to happen in Locke's society is a very real possibility. ... As c...

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Negative duties refers to "obligations to refrain from such things as killing or robbing" (Foot 96), whereas positive duties would be obligations to do positive things, like giving to charity. ... The other case Foot proposes is one which involves imagining that you are the driver of a trolley. ... You realize that the brakes of the trolley have failed and your only options involve continuing on the same track and killing five workmen, or you could steer the trolley onto the other side of the tracks and kill just one worker. ... This would avoid cases in which a certain moral theory ...

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He stresses that you should never treat someone as simply a means but always as a means to an end. ... For example someone can actually excuse an evil like slavery under Mill's theory of utilitarianism. ... This theory forces the individual to take into account the good of the many before making a decision, in which case you get a discouraging action which benefits the individual but harms others. ... No matter what moral system you try to convince someone of, they will always have their own natural belief for someone's own happiness. ... In a system like Kant's if most of i...

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When Sherburn addresses the mob he points out the ugliness and dangerous nature of the collective consciousness, "You didn't want to come. The average man don't like trouble and danger. You didn't like trouble and danger. But if only half a man--like Buch Harness, there--shouts 'Lynch him, lynch him!' ... Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was like a soldier-march. ...

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Furthermore, his soldiers were taught the golden rule- to behave to others the way you want them to behave to you, which is the basic law of life. ... When Shi Huangdi received news that scholars were using records of the past to criticize the emperor's policies and undermine popular support, Shi Huangdi ordered the burning of all writings that were not on useful topics like agriculture, medicine, and divination. ... Asoka believed in the ideal of do onto others as you would want done onto to you whereas Huangdi ...

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If we would like to be morally right for our faith and well-being, marriage is the beginning our lifelong journey. My argument is not to say that you are more likely to be immoral, if you are not married. However, you are definitely subjected to situations that are a lot more immoral and circumstantial. ...

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As a CEO you have an obligation to your stockholders and to your job to increase profitability however as a person, you have a moral obligation to your fellow humans to reduce suffering. ... By coercing someone, you are manipulating them – making them a mean – to do as you wish – the end. Furthermore, by doing so, you are fundamentally violating their dignity as a person and moral being. ... You are still morally obligated to those working under you to see to it that they are sufficiently compensated and relatively taken care of. ... Although it may seem like common sense tha...

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Nevertheless one can't help but apply one's own values to any and all situations in some sort of self-absorbed ethnocentristic trial of values, something that, without fail, always makes us out in the wrong, and Ryunosuke is human, just like everyone else. ... As Tajomaru says, "You kill people with your power, with your money. Sometimes you kill them on the pretext of working for their good It's hard to say who is the greater sinner, you or me." ... He seems to stand back looking upon his audience with a knowing smile that appears to say, "Yes, now you too know what I know, ...

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Also, as employees, we will most likely to expect a happy working environment where we are not treating like a tool in purpose of making profit to power groups. ... In this report, I would like to discus deeply about the aspect of moral and immoral action in business world. ... A news report about "Coca Cola's surprising effecting on body' by Nelly states that ' after you finish drinking a can of Coca-Cola, you have what amounts to approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar in your body unlike fat from food, it is very difficult to get rid of This causes your blood pressure an...

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The goal Socrates enemies was to make him grovel and ask for mercy so that he would look like a fool to all of Athens, but instead Socrates did the opposite professing that he was in the right, and preaching ignorance to the hundreds of jury members, and when they asked him what his penalty should be he laughed in their faces and gave them an outrageous proposal. ... He stated that living life is only worth it if you"re living at a certain high health standard, and if you aren't at a high enough point then you might as well not live. ... He states that you should never do evil no matter...

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Anyhow you can always find something in the country- (Moravia 14). To Cesira, Ciociaria and the entire countryside are like the Garden of Eden. ... Like Lazarus, who also suffers immensely, Cesira eventually is reborn. ... Like Christ, Michele is first persecuted then sacrificed for his beliefs. ... Like in baptism, Rosetta cleanses herself of sin and is reborn. ...

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" Another description is, " wipe the saliva that drooled from his mouth, irrigate the big craters of bedsores that covered his hips, suction the lung fluids that threatened to drown him, clean the feces that burned his skin like lye, pour the liquid food down the tube attached to his stomach, put pillows between his knees to ease the bone-on-bone pain, turn him every hour to keep the bedsores from getting worse, and change his gown and linen every two hours to keep him from being soaked in perspiration.... 'God help patients who get you for a nurse,'" as well as "...

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Her response, " He "is "trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits... " highlights that the different morals, values and habits perceived between social classes did not allow relationships to form in fear of compromising reputations and behaviour. ... One resident states, "You know the court appointed him [Atticus] to defend this nigger," and his friend replies "Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him. That's what I don't like about it." ...

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Walter tells his wife that, "I'm trying to talk to you 'bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work", which is the first sign of Walter's recurring feelings that if someone in the family would just listen to him and put forth their trust his dreams would come to fruition. ... But, as time progress Leana sees how downtrodden her son his because none of the family members will back his dream, so she gives him the money left over after buying the house to spend on his dream and "be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be." ...

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Walter tells his wife that, "I'm trying to talk to you 'bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work", CITE. ... But, as time progress Leana sees how downtrodden her son his because none of the family members will back his dream, so she gives him the money left over after buying the house to spend on his dream and "be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be." ...

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Much like modern day corporations, he has an "honest, frank face" (63), though with crooked features such as an awkward nose and a mismatched mustache. ... Like Yossarian, Milo is able to partially see through the political charades of the war. ... This is a major point for Heller's criticism; he reveals the true nature of this exploiting mindset through Yossarian, who points out "Can't you understand that we're fighting a war? ... Look around you, for Christ's sake!... However, Milo's operation, just like modern-day corporations, would continue to thriv...

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For example if a lecturer says ,will give a student an A, if he/she go out with me or will fail you in this class, if you don't have sex with me". ... For example if a lecturer makes non hostile comments towards female students like saying girls are bad at mathematics or criticizing only female students when they speak up in a class. ... This is golden rule theory in a bible, which states that, "do to others as you would have them do to you" (Luke 6:31) and to Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative that we treat others as ends in themselves and not as means to an end. ...

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Others claim that you can't stop scientific progress and that it may even be immoral to limit experimentation on animals if such work might lead to new medical treatments for some humans. ... This "animal rights" perspective holds that animals experience pain and have human, or human like, emotions and thus should not be subjected to experimentations that can lead to confinement, pain and suffering, and even death. ...

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Religion was a means to achieve something for everyone, while countless were abused and used because of their religious motives; religious figures instead took advantage of their power and acted against others making it more like a monarchy. ... In fact, social status was valuated more harshly than profession and actions and was required for acceptance at times:" would you have the impudence to marry my sister who has seventy-two quarterings! ... " To what excess does religious zeal carry the ladies. " Religion definitely didn't protect women; not only commoners but also religious individ...

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This realization by the readers can only bring them to question why the villagers still participate in the lottery without a remembering a reason to do so much like any of the traditions they observe today. ... Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (Jackson 625). ... Summers in regards to her husband Bill getting the marked paper, "you didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. ... Killing an innocent person, an act that is undeniably nefario...

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Mill feels that the best way to maximize all around happiness is to concentrate on maximizing the happiness of those people whose needs, goals, and ambitions you understand the most. These needs, goals, and ambitions include your own, and those people closest to you which include family members, and friends. ... Besides just producing happiness like Utilitarianism, Confucianism shapes people in my opinion to be wiser, and respectful. ...

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Often, people fail to remember that celebrities are just humans like everyone else. ... Teens look up to their favorite celebrities and hope to be just like them, and in doing so, they begin to justify the actions of their idolized celebrity and deem them socially acceptable. ... Obsession is a disorder and no matter how minuscule it may seem, it will impact you for the rest of your life. ... Celebrity obsession is evident in the way a person may conduct themselves to look more like the individual they are obsessing over. Young teens form negative self-images due to trying look like someone th...

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Reciprocity is of the form, "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours." The Golden Rule becomes, "If someone hits you, you hit them back." ... He implies that if women enter the traditional arena of male activities, then they will recognize the inadequacy of this moral perspective, and only in this way can they progress like men toward higher stages where relationships are subordinated to rules and rules to universal principles of justice. ...

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Walter tells his wife, "I"m trying to talk to you "bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work." ... But, as time progress Leana sees how deflated her son his because none of the family members will back his dream, so she gives him the money left over after buying the house to spend on his dream and "be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be." ...

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I believe that this theory has its truths due to the way that Aristotle feels it relates to certain situations, like someone being a judge and making rulings of matters in which they have had previously made decisions upon. ... I believe this theory holds great truth in the business world, ethical decisions that are made solely give you a great representation of an individual's moral virtue. ... This theory correlates to business in a sense that as you go through your careers, learning and making the right choice is vital in creating happiness as Aristotle describes as living your life ma...

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