Sounds like a very good life, doesn't it? ... These include components like pleasure, happiness, and desire as mentioned before. ... Actually, there are many things that can enhance someone's life like love, friendship, privacy and assisting others. ... Your partner is your teammate in life they help bring the best out of you and allow you to learn from your mistakes but they're also there to give advice and help you when you're down and they aren't afraid to tell you when you are wrong. ... Building friendships is like an investment for your future. ...

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In a field like graphic design we have to be even more careful . ... That is like cheating the consumer. ... If you are systematic and disciplined then the client will behave with you accordingly. Important things like the work brief should be taken in writing. ... You might have to take up a project which you wouldn't have but the pay is good or it is a good opportunity. ...

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Decisions like these are made every day and everyone has their own way of coming up with their solution and justifying it. ... Or simply because you think you need the program triumphs all? ... Countries like Spain and Italy actually have a higher percentage of pirating than the U.S. ... She clearly feels that no matter what copyright says you can't copy any program therefore you must follow that rule. ... If you start taking into account things like who is asking you for the software, or what kind of software it is, no matter what you are still going to be stealing from those companies....

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Shows like Dateline NBC and magazines like Consumer reports indicate how manufacturers make untrue claims about their products and later explain that they didn't make any claims that were untrue. ... Should we look at business in a bazaar-like setting? ... You are always happy with the outcome unless you spent more than you intended, but that is your choice. If it is something you need however, you will generally always feel that you have been cheated. In either case you can always depend on the rare enjoyment of those "good deals- you can find once in a while. ...

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Plato's vivid dialogues portray Socrates explaining that the "just man" is wise, that "he" is a philosopher, much like Plato and himself. ... John Stuart Mill says that "freedom is the absence of someone getting in the way," like the government or parents, etcetera. ... What John Stuart Mill said seems like it makes a lot of sense; justice should be what you think it to be. ... Where in real life, much like Plato's idea, that is not the case. ... No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head, so you may as well believe in justice;...

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I do not insist that being typical 'American folk song like music' is no of aesthetic value. ... In a nutshell, an aesthetic value is what makes you feel sense and then think the embedded 'beauty' that you were not able to detect easily. ... And the statement we heard in the class struck me concerning this question; "The more you know, the more you see". ... It is true that the more you know about the music theoretically, the more musical constructions you can catch from listening to the music. ... Therefore, you could find yourself having...

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It seems like in today's society he is right. ... Morality is a necessity in today's world if you don't have it the world would be in total chaos. ... There is the fact that if you have no morals there would be no respect towards others. ... It is like the cave man myth. ... While reading Dennett he gives one more guideline I liked "You are free to preserve or create any religious {political, social etc.} creed you wish to, so long as it does not become a public menace. ...

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Catalano would like for a mention of promoting peace somewhere in the ABET structure. ... You can not create peace with guns and destruction. ... (p. 7)" Now how can someone, like myself, ethically and logically refute Catalano, a person promoting peace and compassion? ... I just invented a device for people that are lazy and do not like to move because it requires to much energy. ... But here you get into things like what exactly is defined as peaceful, no bleeding, no raising of voices, no one dies? ...

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You can be alone with your fad, or it can include one hundred people, it does not matter who is involved as long as you are among people who love you most and you can truly happy with that group. ... You can never find true happiness unless you experience first hand giving back to the ones that are less fortunate than you are. ... You can not be so greedy to only find happiness with the things you do, when you show someone the pathway of happiness it can bring just as much joy to you as it does to the person you helped. ... When someone has no family or friends to cherish those wonderful mo...

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Using a barber to cut your hair or a bartender to poor you a drink is acceptable if you treat them as a human being and not as a means to simply get something you want. ... Humans aren't good just because you should be. ... If you were raised to think speeding is wrong and the community you live in does not speed, then you will believe speeding is immoral. ... Like the trolley problem; if a train is rolling down the tracks and you are in control of making the decision as to whether it stays straight on the track it is moving along which five people are standing, or turn the train onto ano...

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If you reject one aspect of the law you surely reject it all. ... For example, it is considered wrong to steal but if by stealing a gun you are preventing a person from killing people then you have acted in love and thus your theft is non-accountable. ... You can't say 'Is it ever right to lie to your family?' ... (Vardy & Grosch p.130) Many have claimed that Situation Ethics looks a lot like like Utilitarianism except that Fletcher has substituted 'love' for 'happiness'. ... An evil like pain, death or mutilation is, in itself, pre-moral or non-moral, and...

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First you must explain the character present in the tyrant. Second you must describe the kind of life that a tyrant can be expected to live. ... The philosopher: "who is most kingly who rules like a king over himself... If you do that as Socrates does you would have to say the same thing he says himself. ... It is like they are playing a game of telephone. ...

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The second code states that you are to treat every patient that you help with the respect that they deserve. ... When caring for these patients you should use proper protective gear ( gloves, masks or gowns) but you should a no point make them feel uncomfortable being around you because of something that you say or do while around them. ... Also, it is imperative that you are able to manipulate the tube so you can get a good visualization of the anatomy. ... The fifth code states that you should make decisions for you patient with their best interest in mind. ... Also if they feel like they ...

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Two of the more recent topics science has been dealing with have been cloning and a procedure that allows you to choose the sex of your baby. ... "What we have before us are human embryos and not cells...life which must preserve its dignity like every other human life" the Vatican said. ... Religion is worried about issues just like this because science attempts will be even greater as time goes on. ... It allows you to choose whether you want a boy or a girl. ... The biggest problem science rises in religion for me is the idea of acting God like. ...

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Atticus was chosen to shoot the dog because he is the only one with the shooting ability, much like how the Maycomb Judge, Judge Taylor, gave the Tom Robinson case to Atticus because he was the only one with the courage to properly defend Tom Robinson. ... You look like a picture this evening'" (pg. 133). ... It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you doShe was the bravest person I ever knew" (pg. 149). ... Maudie notes Atticus's influence in the community by sayin...

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I personally don't judge books by their covers; in fact I like the diversity of the world and America in modern times? ... People like Agozino have no greater outlet than to harm others to escape there own personal dilemmas. ... There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, if you are telling the whole truth. ... In this situation like others, it's based on what your views are because Bonhoeffer still had the intent to murder another man. Morals are environment- induced characteristics that you"re not born with. ...

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They would like to believe they would never take part in the genocide like the attendees of the Wannsee Conference. ... If you are not the one who does the action, then you should have nothing to worry about. ... The inability to put oneself into another's position sounds like a personality defect, but it is also an ethical issue. ... How can someone like this ever show the moral courage necessary to not only think ethically, but also to act ethically? ... In a sense, citizens become just like unethical bureaucrats. ...

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If you get yourself into debt you have to work harder to pay it off. ... I comprehend the feeling of thinking you are too young to have a baby. ... There are a couple of different forms, like closed and open adoption. ... I feel like this is a great option for teens and for people with financial struggles. ... There are other birth defects, like Down syndrome, that I do not feel should be aborted. ...

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In other words, the goodness you give will come back to you, as the age old saying goes; any act you commit in order to bring pleasure to another will eventually bring pleasure back to you. ... This is a principle, which Bentham is quite firm on, even going so far as to site examples from other cultures where the punishment did not fit the crime, like Anglo-Saxon laws. Some of Bentham's ideas clearly remain in today's laws, things like "when two offenses come in competition, the punishment for the greater offense must be sufficient to induce a man to prefer less" (Rivers). ... On ...

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Aquinas believed that if you had no knowledge of an end then you would live your life as if there was no end. Today I believe that if you believe in God and live your life as if God was the Supreme Being then you will be happier because you have a starting point to knowing true happiness. ... That what you believe in ultimately plays a role in how happy you are. ... I will use the example of a hospital patient with cancer who believes in God and believes that there is a place after death, once you know that there is an end coming you are more likely to be prepared to go without any hesitation ...

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He named the formula Categorical Imperative which can be basically defined as "Always act so that you can will the rule of your action to be a universal law.... Roughly, it can be said that if you don't have free will, you can't be moral, because you can't be responsible for your actions. ... In this last principle, Kant understands that there is the possibility (or 'capacity') for anyone to act morally, and describes what this action would look like in practice. ... Don't make excuses or refuse to act because you think that your actions will not make a diff...

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If you have all of those things then it is safe to say that you have a good plan. ... Therefore, in a situation as if you hire new instructors to work at the Academy, you want to look at soldiers that will fit into this new culture. ... An example of that is when you have a commander who has a philosophy of doing things a certain way and a staff that will support it, you can best believe when a new commander comes in and goes in almost an entirely different direction you will have just as many loyal followers. ... The concept is that you must have any organization that is concerned with the...

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Using an example of someone like Mother Teresa or Gandhi best describes this situation. ... You can be a person that does soccer and plays the piano while also having the moral decency to report an honor offense at the University of Virginia, for example. You can continue to be this morally good person while keeping up with the things you enjoy. On the contrary, Susan Wolf would probably argue that this is just one small minor instance of morality and that it does not count as being a moral saint because you are in part being selfish and not doing everything with the thought of putting other p...

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In my opinion, if you are financially stable and you do not donate to charities that help Third World countries, you are amoral because as privileged people it is our duty to help the extremely poor. ... This leads us to his thesis which is "If you do not donate to aid agencies that help the extremely poor in the Third World, you are doing something wrong; you are not leading an ethical life.... You know that the child will die if he is not pulled out of the pond soon but if you go into the pond you will ruin the brand new pair of shoes you just bought, you'd also ruined your suit an...

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You can never justify what's right and what is wrong. ... Regardless of the size of the company, corporations have a high regard for their futures, like the Oxford Street Pedlar who were subjected to the almighty business ethics where they were typically known for their culture. ... Relatively speaking, we have entrenched that impulse on behaviors can be separated when you want to do the right thing. ... Generally speaking, in most cases, when you have aspirations on what you want to become, shows great values and standards and it's an enhancement to modern businesses. ... Its soul...

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