patient and makes a prognosis on the likelihood of survival.” This technology is unethical. A program should not have the power to suggest to a doctor to let a patient die. In Chris’ situation the hospital not only must decide is what best for him, but also for his family. If the surgeon decided to follow the suggestion of RIP, Chris will die which leaves two young children fatherless, and a broken, depressed, now widowed woman will be left with her baby girls all alone. There is nothing ethical about…
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matter what you do, we all deserve to be treated the same and treated with the respect and love that we all need. Being treated as an end, is an intrinsic value, while being treated as means, is an extrinsic value. Human beings have a moral duty to treat themselves and others as ends rather than only as means even when we have economic, legal, or religious duties not to do so. Everyone should respect not only their own, but other people’s inherent worth. Everyone deserves to be loved, treated fairly…
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everyone deserves a second chance. As long as they are willing to change, they should be allowed to get a second chance. It is only fair and killing them won’t change anything. It is just one more life taken away. Isn't that just redoing what the murderer did? "A life for a life". So those who hung the convict should die too? Think about it. You have to give people a chance to change. I don't support the death penalty because it is not nearly humane at all. A big thing here is that two wrongs do not…
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being the issue, the hospital also saw it fit for the patient to be cared for by his family. Therefore, a decision was made for Armando to finally go home so that his family could take care of him. This was a major blow to Armando who angrily wished to die following the hospital’s decision. However, this was not the end for Armando because the Dimas family learned how to operate the machines and took turns in caring for Armando. Although Armando’s father was angry about the decision made by Hermann Hospital…
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trial, and then constructed a shameful conviction against her. Thus, Soraya had no chance to defend herself. The execution scene in the Stoning of Soraya M. is horrific. Sincerely, it is unacceptable for anyone to die in such a cruel condition. What type of justice system is that? Am I wrong by qualifying unfair? This barbarous punishment took the life of an innocent mother by pretexting she is a whore. Here's the thing, identify homicide or rape with bodily harm as a crime in the United States that…
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of this gift, we hear many people come up with phrases such as “Live everyday as your last”, or “Live as if you’ll die tomorrow”. Unfortunately, for some, these phrases can be more than just a saying. They can be facts. The people, for whom this holds truth, tend to be disliked by many and even hated by some. The type of person who faces a simple phrase such as “Live as if you’ll die tomorrow” as something that is actually the truth, is typically not a person with much freedom. This type of person…
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attack each other or take their own lives due to the high level of stress. Animal testing has been going on for centuries, but how long is enough? These animals are treated like nothing more than just disposable laboratory equipment and each year, over 100 million animals die in US laboratories. Animal testing should be completely outlawed because it is unreliable and expensive, cruel and inhumane, speciesism and unfair . Animal testing is always being questioned whether or not it’s actually reliable, but the truth is it’s not…
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Exploring the nature of what is right and what is wrong will always be controversial because people have an unwavering confidence in their own unique moral claims. The ethical principles that govern our basic foundation of behavior have determined our beliefs. For this reason, the value of a human life cannot be quantified or calculated because of its inestimable worth. Depriving life is an iniquity and an unprincipled violation of the human conscience. Embryonic stem cell research is an issue centered…
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guaranteeing government protections of these “unborn children”. Pro-life advocates argue that a fetus has many of the characteristics of being alive. They have electrical activity in the brain and a heartbeat and that it is alive in a legal sense, and deserves protection. Even though the fetus shows some characteristics of being alive, and might even be alive, it is certainly not aware of its “live” status in any meaningful sense. Therefore, terminating a pregnancy in its early stages can hardly…
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Euthanasia differs from murder, because the action causing the death is for the sake of the person to be killed. Someone might say that the person wanted to die anyway, so why ending his or her lives can be wrong? Is active euthanasia –acting to end the life of another- ever a right moral action? It is not an easy debate whether it is right or wrong to help end someone’s life. Some people might argue that…
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