Pain and pleasure are the only measures of good and evil in this moral theory. ... Since pleasure and pain are the only factors that are able to measure good and evil, every living being has equal rights. ... On page 20 of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, he even goes as far as to say "For certainly no known ethical standard decides an action to be good or bad because it is done by a good or bad man," meaning someone who does not have good character can still be moral if they follow the principle of utility. ... Instead, the motives for utility are, as Mill would say, rooted i...

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The writer effectively uses tone as a rhetorical strategy (ethos) to emphasize the fundamental political conflict that exist in America to educate every students that the way we measure integrity will determine the true success of an individual. ... Rand skillfully portrays Roark's character in the film to state that a man must accept responsibility for his own thinking and his own survival by making conscientious judgment. ... In the film, the writer teaches her audience that one of the ways to measure the integrity of a person is to be true to his self. ... In opposition to the main her...

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He brings up consequences of breaking promises such as trust which plays a big role in a person's moral character. ... By focusing on the consequence of a rule we can better measure if it should be implied in terms of everyone. ...

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Yet then goes out and contradicts him-self in the next two pages with Ribner suggesting Octavius, Octavia, Enobarbus and any number of the other characters played a part in his demise The review begins to rely heavily on a repetition of what he has previously said about sin, lust and the defiance of the Christian moral order. ... "It is an enfeebling love which makes the strong man subject to the shrill mocking taunts of Cleopatra and which leads him to neglect his duty to the great roman empire, but we admire nevertheless the magnanimity which scorns to measure passions cost. ...

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The various components of happiness and unhappiness should be comparable in order to be able to measure the two against one another. ... " Utilitarianism is a "consequentialist" moral theory meaning that only consequences matter, not the intrinsic character of acts. ...

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Both Moravia's and De Sica's artistic representations of Two Women depict lost purity and innocence, and the subsequent intense suffering of characters confronted with the reality of a world so different from that of their desires, dreams and ideals. ... The "neighborhood, the house, the furniture and the personal belongings- (Cottrell13) reflect the characters' natures. ... Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... The sacrificial element of ...

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When there is some measure of status that is publicly available, it serves both as a carrot and stick for guiding user behavior. ... Even something as simple as filtering out obscenities can be circumvented by simple techniques such as leaving spaces between the letters or inserting filler characters. ...

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It assumes that the character of a foreign policy can be ascertained only through the examination of the political acts performed and of the foreseeable consequences of these acts. ... Without such a concept a theory of politics, international or domestic, would be altogether impossible, for without it one could not distinguish between political and nonpolitical facts, nor could one bring at least a measure of systematic order to the political sphere. ...

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