By killing a human being the government lessens the society's value of life and also contributes to the growing opinion today that certain individuals are worth more than others. ... Immanual Kant, a philosopher on the matter of ethics, founded the Categorical Imperative, which is a rule known all around the world, that states that society and its individuals "must act in such a way that you can will that your actions become a universal law for all to follow" (Palmer 265). There has to be a set of moral and ethical standards that even our all knowing government can not supercede, otherwis...

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