With this statement you can see that Epicurus accused the people of creating the gods in their own image, so they created what we would call false gods. ... Since the soul dies with are bodies we have not to worry about living eternal, so the present should be concerned with pursuing the pleasant life, which includes "elimination of those false ideas about the gods and death which are the chief source of mental disturbances" (Readings pg.92). ... In contrast Epicurus does not believe that the soul is immortal therefore there is no need to search for truth but to seek out "The necessary desir...

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In this essay I will firstly be defining what euthanasia is and how it differentiates from other terms, such as assisted suicide and murder. ... However making a choice over to die dignified is looked down on and is a term of stigma. ... Kant's biggest principle is that every individual should be provided with freedom and autonomy however if individuals are not able to make decisions regarding their own life and the way they wish to die, how is the autonomy rule followed in this situation? ... So an action can be right or wrong on the results of the action, depending on how many people...

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It never crosses his mind that, since the Gospel according to Matthew was written several decades after Jesus died, it might not be a reliable historical document. ... We are often left to wonder how a God who is supposed to love us so much could allow such violence and evil to exist in the world without doing anything to stop it. ... But even if most Americans share his beliefs we need to consider what we are to think ethically of someone who bases there life completely on unquestioning faith. In other words, what are we left to think of someone who talks and writes frequently of his religiou...

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Christians argue that humans are made in the image of God and turn to scripture to support this argument "none of us lives to himself if we live we live to the lord, if we die we die to the lord." This quote highlights that as we are made in the image of god we must therefore strive for good in the world and live for god. ... The secular society argues that euthanasia is a compassionate response to suffering, however the Christian response to this is that genuine compassion moves us to do all that we can to eliminate suffering but never to eliminate the sufferer. ... "Exploitati...

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From old commandments to new commandments, guidelines that provide structural framework, classic experiments that challenge that framework, or even how things are defined in medical ethics. ... If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ... If we compare a severely defective human infant with a non-human animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the non-human to have superior c...

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We are connected to everything in our world. We are connected thought the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the soil where we live. ... Today, over 18,000 people have died because of illnesses caused by the gas leak. ... It also educates the public about how their actions affect natural ecosystems; and how positive steps taken to minimize impacts on these ecosystems will translate into improvements in our overall environment. ... If we keep on going the way we have been, there may come a day when the Earth spins in space without us. ...

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Singer questions our vague distinction between 'duty' and 'charity', how society views giving as a supererogatory act- praising those who give to charities, simultaneously deeming inaction not morally wrong. ... We can just wear the clothes we already own and spend maximally or more than we presently do on the act of giving. ... Singer focuses on the stronger principle, believing in giving to the level of marginal utility and explains by using an example of a child drowning in a shallow pond, that we should rescue the child even if it means getting our clothes dirty as ...

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Therefore, it is more permissible to allow one person to die, rather than five. ... From this we conclude that its is better to allow harm, rather than do harm. So letting someone die as opposed to intentionally killing them are two very distinct things. ... The only chance to save these men is if you, as a bystander, push a fat man off the footbridge so that he lands in the path of the trolley and stops the force of the train from killing the five men, but as a result from the impact the fat man dies. ... This would avoid cases in which a certain moral theory forces you to act in a way tha...

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For example, letting a patient die because he/she is an organ donor and an organ is needed would be ok as compared to one person killing another for personal reasons between the victim and the killer. ... This is because, contrary to John Mill, Kant believes in why the person must die, be it to make one person happy or ten. ... It doesn't matter how much you smoke. ... John Mill believes that the whole society should be taken into equal consideration to see how much happiness any act can bring. ... What this means is that in a utilitarian society, while we would all have to consider th...

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We would not be able to do wrong if we acted out of our personal beliefs system, as we almost always do. ... So in this definition we find a much more plausible argument for moral relativity. ... (Westermarck, 410) If this, then, is the case, how should we make moral judgements at all, and what is morality? ... There have been several major theories on how judgement of moral action should be pursued. ... Here we shall cut largely to the chase and boil down each argument to its roots. ...

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Kant's moral theory and Utilitarianism are similar because they both attempt to explain how one can go about acting ethically, but they differ in areas of measuring morality and their usage of rules. ... For example if a large and powerful country that was in need badly of food and millions of people were to starve, then it would be considered ok to take over a country which had only about a thousand people and take their food, which leaves them starving and dying. ... Kant says that we should follow this imperative because it's demanded by reason, and that a free person is only one ...

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Benedict also states in the culture of the Kwakiutl, a culture which has been without contact to and thus has remained uninfluenced by our "standardized worldwide civilization, " the death of a loved one (no matter if the person has died of accident or natural causes) is considered an "insult " which is to be dealt with by committing murder (79, 82). According to Benedict, each of these examples demonstrate how what is considered immoral in one society is considered moral in another. ... Pojman's argument clearly shows that as individuals we do not have the right to judge others or force...

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It says, "we found more than half of MBA students would seek another job if they found that their values conflicted with the business where they work."... In Tamra Kaplan's article, "The Tylenol Crisis", she shows how CSR was adopted to save the company. When seven people died from taking Tylenol that had been contaminated with cyanide, J&J quickly took the initiative to confront the public on what had happened and to keep them informed on what would be happening. ... One of their mottoes includes, "We believe that corporate responsibility makes bottom-line business sense. ... As CSR con...

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Everybody has their own ideas of what is right and wrong how a person should live. ... Seeing as how people have different views of what is good and what would be the best for the greatest number, utilitarianism is not a perfect moral ethics and when followed by the wrong people it can lead to disastrous consequences. ... But the people who committed these horrific acts, a Muslim radical group known as the Taliban, could if they were so inclined defend them by saying that they were an act of utilitarianism, that is they felt happiness from the suicide attacks on September 11 because of their b...

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An often used case to critique general consequentialism is one where one person is killed in order to prevent five people from dying. ... In an idealistic ethical system, it would hold true that a person should not have their rights, or how they exercise their rights, to either liberty nor life revoked or oppressed without consent. ... Certainly some level of equality is good, as we have already determined that the moral code applies to everybody therefor everybody has a right to life and liberty, a certain amount of equality has been expressed. ... The golden rule says to treat others how y...

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