"Clean your room, do your homework, got to college and get a good education- These are rules, rather orders that people are given the choice to obey or suffer the consequences. ... The elitist minority enjoyed the "finer things in life" while the poorer majority were "left with the crumbs". If the minority wished for the system to remain, and also have the poorer majority serve them, obedience by force was needed to maintain the status quo. This method was bad because the consequence of what the poorer majority might do; "One day, the many might have the means to overthrow the few by force" (p...

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If we applied these "rules" seen in the animal kingdom to how we as humans treat each other, we would see Kaldor's dream of a humanitarian state come to pass. She defines it as "the main task is to construct some form of legitimate set of global rules. ... The humanitarian regime would be at the heart of such a set of rules because of the legitimacy that derives from the assumption of human equality" (Kaldor 396). ... Guinier expresses her opinions on equality for voters by stating, "You cooperate when you lose in part because members of the current majority will cooperate when you win...

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Thomas notes in his theory of "Definition of the Situation" that, "the child is always born into a group of people among whom all the general types of situation which may arise have already been defined and corresponding rules of conduct developed, and where he has not the slightest chance of making his definitions and following his wishes without interference. ... In order to understand the nature of context in a given situation that an individual is operating in, one must also understand the different rules that shape and define the environment of that context. ... Through her experiences w...

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Locke and Rousseau were two great philosophers of the Enlightenment. While both writers agreed that before civilized society man existed in a state of nature, that is, humans lacked society or structure, they disagreed on what constituted freedom. Differences in their opinion on freedom stems from t...

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In order to maintain ethical standards and set the rules in animal research, two societies i.e. association for the study of animal behavior and the animal behavior society have setup joint committees. ... It typically consists of at least five people majority of which is faculty members from various departments, at least one social community and one non-scientific community representative. ...

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However, there are exceptions to this general rule because there are circumstances in which abortion may be necessary. ... Utilitarianism is the thought that actions are right if they benefit or bring happiness to a majority of the population.They could argue that there is overpopulation in today's society and around the world people are starving and going thirsty because of overpopulation. ...

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