Putting aside the question of legality, what moral arguments can be given for and brand against...
What are 2 arguments for legalizing marijuana? What are 2 arguments against legalization? In your opinion which side has a stronger argument? Why? 1/2 page And Given all of the health hazards from tobacco, drug, and excessive alcohol use, who do you believe should be responsible for the medical expenses of users? Insurance Companies or the users themselves? Please explain. 1/2 page
Topics (choose one): 1. We have studied the moral philosophies of Aristotle and Epictetus (Stoics). Write a paper showing how one is a superior moral philosophy in relation to the other Use any ideas you have on any of the points they make where you can make a comparison/contrast. (Suggestions—Arist. Rational training of emotions vs. Stoic emotional uninvolvement; for Aristotle healthy emotions are necessary for moral reasoning, while Stoics seem to frown upon emotion as the enemy of serenity.) 2....
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Case 9-1 regards Jack Kevorkian and his mercy killing of Thomas Youk. Kevorkian videotaped the killing by lethal injection while Youk signed a consent statement and also uttered his consent in the videotape recording. Kevorkian injected him with a paralyzing drug, a sedative and then finally with potassium chloride (a lethal drug that stops the heart). Youk was mentally lucid and asked for this euthanasia and...
Suppose you are a lobbyist fighting against the legalization of marijuana. Upon what would you base your argument/case? Why are some drugs illegal and others not? What characteristics or criteria do we use to determine if a drug's use is legitimate or illegitimate? What would you do to help solve the drug issue in the U.S.? Drug and alcohol abuse cost taxpayers more than $294 billion in preventable health care costs, extra law enforcement, auto crashes, crime and lost productivity....
Regan thinks animals have rights because They can suffer and enjoy life They are subjects of a life (what happens to them matters to them) They are capable of caring for their young They have reason and emotion 0.5 points QUESTION 2 Regan's view is more extreme than Singer's in this way: Singer doesn't consider the interests of as many animals as Regan does Regan's rights position means you cannot violate the rights of anyone with them, whereas Singer...
C Programming QUESTION 2 Which of the following statements about pointer arguments are true? Select all choices you believe are correct--this question may have more than one correct answer! A. The * operator allows you to access the address of an existing variable, while the & operator allows you to dereference a pointer and access the data to which it points. B. A function with pointer arguments must have the void return type. C. Pointer arguments allow you to write...
1. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, how should we evaluate people's moral reasoning? a. Ask people what is the right thing to do in certain situations. b. Consider the reasons people give for the moral decisions they make. c. See whether people's actual behavior matches what they say is right or wrong. d. Watch whether people act guilty when they break a rule. 2. Which objection do many psychologists raise against Kohlberg's approach to morality? a. Most moral decisions are based...
Background This question asks you to take and defend a position in the debate between deontological and utilitarian moral systems, and in particular on the question of whether we should evaluate the morality of actions based on a standard of duty or one of welfare. Assignment In light of Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Mill's Utilitarianism, address the question of whether it would be better to base the ethical assessment of actions on a standard of 'duty'...
QUESTION 19 This question, and the three questions that follow it, have to do with the following paragraph from John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. One should not be misled, then, by the somewhat unusual conditions which characterize the original position. The idea here is simply to make vivid to ourselves the restrictions that it seems reasonable to impose on arguments for principles of justice, and therefore on these principles themselves. Thus it seems reasonable and generally acceptable that no...
4. Arguments in Disguise Sometimes the most persuasive argument is that which doesn’t seem like an argument at all. Songs, movies, news reports, advertisements: these and other forms of communication often contain hidden arguments that have a tremendous effect on how we view ourselves and the world. To learn more about where arguments may hide, read the information that follows. Where Arguments Hide The Illusion of Objectivity Personal Taste Appeals Spin Propaganda To spin a statement or event is to describe it...