Confucianism took a humanistic approach in which an individual's action determined whether they were good or bad. ... He perceived benevolence as seeds, like apple seeds, which after being sown, will sprout and grow. " This renders the idea that an individual uses oneself as a role model to standardize one's behavior in relative to others around them. ...
Like them, cloning is to be regarded as a neutral technique, with no inherent meaning or goodness, but subject to multiple uses, some good, some bad. The morality of cloning thus depends absolutely on the goodness or badness of the motives and intentions of the cloners . . . by the way the parents nurture and rear their resulting child and whether they bestow the same love and affection on a child brought into existence by a technique of assisted reproduction as they would on a child born in the usual way. ... Frankenstein harvested his components from the charnel houses of Ingolstadt, whereas...
Most people can agree that most of us are born pure and then sometimes the weight of the world can crush that fragile spirit and turn people "bad." ... Looking beyond the perceptions of the media, one will realize that there is more "good" in the world than "bad." ... In fact, "Media studies show that bad news far outweighs good news by as much as seventeen negative news reports for every one good news report" (Williams, 2010). ... "Many studies have shown that we care more about the threat of bad things than we do about the prospect of good things. ... How can one ass...
