Such concerns include exactly who should have access to these databases, unjust targeting of criminal relatives to obtain information, and innocent names on the same list as convicted criminals. ... Currently there is no similar federal law on DNA databases regarding time limits in the United States. ... Illinois state law "requires all convicted sex offenders to submit a blood sample if they are sentenced to incarceration or other institutionalized care and to provide such sample as a condition of parole or release" and the samples are kept in a database that "may not be subje...

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This comes from the theory of the universal law, which says that an action is only moral if the reason for performing it could be a reason everyone could have (ICE). ... Kant says that an act is considered moral if it's done for the sake of duty and if it can be a universal law. ... Under this system, eventually the majority will produce enough unhappiness because of the many acts where people would feel unjust, that the sole purpose of utilitarianism will contradict itself. ... For example, Kant believes that there are no exceptions for moral laws. ... Kant says that a good act without...

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People in power make laws and the weaker party is supposed to follow those laws... ""(339D) Thus, according to Thrasymachus, justice is "obediance to the laws made by the rulers in the interest of the rulers... In time, people agreed to a sort of crude system of laws that established a system of right and wrong. The laws were, however, self serving to the more powerful. ... If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they please without detection, the two men, both the just and unjust alike, will seize the opport...

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Its appeal mostly comes from the fact that it focuses on social reform and changing unjust laws and policies. ... The ultimate end-goal of Utilitarianism is eudaimonia, or happiness, and the greatest concern is how we can rid our society of laws, institutions and practices that are unjust. ... The concept of incorporating a moral theory that would change unjust practices, institutions and policies is indisputably good. ...

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In a matter of principles in the workplace, often times the law is in favor of productivity rather than morality. ... She was not fired, however, she was demoted and chose to resign because she felt she was being unjustly penalized for her ethical convictions. ...

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Thoreau would be very much inclined to disagree with the main point of Socrates" argument dealing with the law of Athens in "Crito." ... Ultimately Thoreau would consider Socrates" enduring devotion to Athenian government and society despite its injustices ignorant and dissolute as he believes that "law never made men a whit more just, by means of their respect for it" (Thoreau 2). ... These direct actions, according to Thoreau include abstaining from the involvement and obedience of a government or society that is unjust. ...

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Aristotle wrote that "Now when a person kills himself in a fit of anger, he acts voluntarily in violation of right reason; and that the law does not permit. Consequently, he acts unjustly. ... Though this may seem reasonable for the mentality ill, and physically sick, it goes against Kantian ethics, and the laws of nature. ...

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Kant argues that in subjecting oneself to law, agents voluntarily limit their own freedom but freely chooses the limitation. ... Without the power to challenge law, whether moral or political, an agent must adhere to unjust regimes, immoral community standards or harsh civil codes. ... Political laws, by definition, limit freedom of action while moral laws, by definition, limit freedom of thought and action subversively. The essence of the Kantian ethic resides in universal law because it would be illogical for a universal law to be rejected. ... While it is quite obvious that Kant argues seve...

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The system attempts to make a statement about whether an action is moral or immoral, just or unjust, often with the goal is for the vast majority, ideally everybody, to conform to a given moral theory so that the best, most ethically sound world would come into existence. ... This theory must include some form of natural law to govern the natural rights that a person might inherently have and be able to therefor express to some degree. ... When a person has given consent to be subjected to a series of restrictions, such as a government or other system of rules or laws, they agree that they wi...

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Are Moral Truths Relative? With many vehement opponents and rivals, relativism was a popular view in the twentieth century. It has widespread appeal to modern society, which is more and more becoming exposed to the diversity of different cultures, peoples, institutions and schools of thought. It was the exposition of this myriad of factors via advances in anthropology which first led to the growth of relativism. However, it is the interaction of these and other factors that poses some tough questions to the fundamental principals of relativism as we shall see in the subsequent discussio...

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