Second of all a fetus is not a stranger, it's created of woman's "flesh and blood" and can potentially become her child. ... She forgets that the woman and fetus are not perfect strangers and in a normal case of pregnancy there is no aggression or harm being done. ...
When a person lists their priorities or whom they care for the most, almost everyone in the world would place their families before their friends or strangers. ... The problem one encounters is that there are a select group of philanthropic selfless individuals out there who do place the benefits and interests of complete strangers or non-family members before even the benefit of themselves. ...
A startling fact: Almost 20,000 transplants were done in the USA (11,409 kidneys, 4,166 livers, 2,292 hearts and 942 lungs among them) and according to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation in the world were transplanted 48,541 hearts and 11,608 lungs, saving 5% of related victims in USA , or a tiny 0.7% worldwide, meaning that transplantation, an anyhow unnatural practice which implants a strangers" organ into another body, is far away from solving the problem, being the lack of adequate donors is the main reason. ...
In explaining the root of altruistic acts, de Waal says, "the helping responses of dolphins, gorillas, or people toward strangers in need evolved in the context of a close-knit group life in which most of the time such actions benefited relatives and companions willing to repay the favor" (de Waal 654). ...
In the work entitled "Racisms", Kwame Anthony Appiah explains the heart of racism as to be a doctrine called racialism. Racialism is the belief that there are different sets of races, which are established by groups of people sharing common, unique heritable characteristics. This leads to these grou...
There are many implications to consider when questioning the moral status of animals. It is a moderately modern idea that non-human animals have moral status, and philosopher Peter Singer dedicated a lot of his life towards this debate. It follows that humans have certain inviolable rights such as t...
Though he was not the first to discover the hormone itself Getz was able to prove, with the help of neuroendocrinologist and colleague Sue Carter, that an increased level of oxytocin in females caused them to be less choosey about their mates and more affectionate towards them (more cuddling and licking occurred, they also avoided strangers more often) than untreated females. ...
In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his c...
