1. Death Penelty
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. ... There has to be a set of moral and ethical standards that even our all knowing government can not supercede, otherwise how can any nation or let alone any state expect its citizens not to follow in its foot steps. ... In regards to the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, the great ethical philosopher, He stated that the motives behind actions determine whether something is moral or immoral (Palmer 271) and the mo...
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