Everyone has to make a decision for themselves based on their values, so it does not make a matter or right or wrong. ... In 1973, the court ruled in favor of the right of women to have an abortion based on the Fourteenth amendment. ... As a society we would not want the government putting regulations on what treatments are ordinary or extraordinary. ... From a religious, and government standpoint it is important not to intertwine the beliefs of the two respectively. ... As a society, it is not fair to make laws based off religious interpretations. ...

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The federal government also has their own set of ethics that they give to each employee upon their entrance on duty. ... Politics Enron - Enron was born in July 1985 when Houston Natural Gas merged with Omaha-based InterNorth. Kenneth Lay, an energy economist who had held academic and government positions throughout his career, became chairman and chief executive. ... But the company's success was based on artificially inflated profits, dubious accounting practices and fraud. ... Andersen's June 15 felony conviction in federal court in Houston ended the Chicago-based firm'...

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And a number of embryos are already donated to science through private funding why not through government funding also. ... He states that based on preliminary work that has been privately funded, scientists believe further research using stem cells offers great promise that could help improve the lives of those who suffer from many terrible diseases. ... The government has a huge decision to make with this issue because of its controversial issues. ... And while scientist are urging for governmental help many activist and church communities are strongly disapproving stem cell research of an...

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Civil Disobedience #1) I think it means that when a government tries to have too much control of over a group of peoples then there will be sedition to that control. The best government is one that lets people freely choose the way they live... In the #2 marked section a majority may however make a choice based on what they want or their conscience causing an injustice. " a corporation with a group of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience." ... The computer is the government and the electricity is the friction is the injustice that makes that makes it run. ...

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Any argument on the legality of abortion that is based on different ethical values is doomed to come to a standstill. ... Ethical values are based on a guide of living chosen individual. ... However there is no easy and complete way in which government can judge intent. ... Until that moment comes, I think that we must rely on set rules that every person has and on governmental enforcement in order to survive in this world. ... However in most cases of abortion, government should allow doctors and patients to make the decision. ...

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It is different from the utilitarian view because it is not based on emotion which Kant feels leaves to much room for injustice. ... Imagine that you are a tax expert and you know that you can falsify your records without getting caught (so that you pay the government less than is legally required). ...

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Philosophy is based on reason, he declared, and theology comes from faith in divine revelation, yet both come from God. ... Thomas believed that governments have a moral responsibility to serve people and to help them lead virtuous lives. He declared that governments must not violate what he considered human rights--life, education, religion, and reproduction. ... Plato based his ethical theory on the proposition that all people desire happiness. ...

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If a ruler were to live and govern by a code of morals, and base all decisions concerning his government on these morals, he would most likely be overthrown in a short period of time. You can't base your power on morals, when no others involved in your situation do. ...

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A government steals military secrets to protect their countries interests. ... Government and people often justify killing a few to prevent the discomfort or death of many. ... It is obvious by what our governments actions and the actions of others that people determine the true meaning of the Commandments to their own benefit. ... He may be saying that all beliefs should be taken into account and not dismissed, but expressing them is purely "emotive", or based upon our emotion. ... The other imperative is that law which must be determined based upon the circumstance. ...

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A measure of government may be said to be conformable to or dictated by principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency that it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it. ... His research and works from it set a very good base for the principle. ...

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Is cloning then, treating animals as just another commodity, going one step too far in a consumer based society? ... In Australia, as in many countries worldwide, governments have been quick to ban cloning of human beings. ... In the absence of government regulations, most of the current research into animal cloning is sponsored by companies with short-term profit motives. ... In future, I believe a regulatory body of members of government, science, animal welfare and the community should be implemented. ...

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(Carbonnier, Dec 2001) It has been very easy for these big companies, to take advantage of the lack of legislation and government intervention in these less fortunate countries, but more recently they are beginning to be made accountable for their actions. Recently, Royal Dutch/Shell were embarrassed by revelations of their treatment of people in Nigeria (Mullins, 2002) The United Nations and government organizations have begun to build partnerships with large companies to help combat human rights issues. ... It may initially be more expensive to set up business here, but if companies were to ...

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It was also discovered that while an application for a permit had been made, the construction of the tank had been started, based on a verbal acknowledgement. ... There was also worry of a class action lawsuit, and possibly criminal exposure, based on the lack of a permit, and the reconstruction of the tank out of 40-year-old steel. ...

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Everything we do when forced to make decisions based on emotion or sentiment rather then logical. ... Each person may have a different answer but each person is answering based on what their emotions are telling them. This applies to the case because the courts are seeing that he had sex with an eleven year old girl and they are making their decisions based on their emotions. ... But in order to have this sense of "safety" one needs to have their leviathan, such as a king or government that can uphold the "laws" that are created between the people. ...

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As a society over the years we have all tried our best to present a standard and have based it on some form of general knowledge. ... The factors that a society says is morally right range from cultures, religions, rituals, government, and so on. ... Summing it up, one can do what is morally right for themselves based on the feeling it gives them regardless of good or bad. It shows moral standards are formed more based on the appetite of the pleasure than its ethics. ...

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The firm did: v Urged government to prohibit the sale of the product to children v Discontinued the sale of the product in small jars v Paid for the support of several social workers to work with street children v Circulated information to distributors about the dangers of Resistol addiction v After stating they were to remove the brand from the market the parent company decided to confined the sale of the product to large industrial firms. ... The firm argued that the government's failure to provide a comfortable social environment was a major factor in the children's abuse of...

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Decisions made for the good create a positive virtue, while unethical decisions made be a person in their life has Aristotle believing that they are inherently evil based upon these decisions. ... I agree with this theory as it describes individuals perfectly, ones who make choices solely based upon their greater good and not the good of the whole and then someone who makes the decision or acts in the right because he knows it's morally and ethically correct to do so not for themselves but for the greater good of all. ... Aristotle believes that a friendship based upon these principles wi...

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It is way to understand why it is important not to judge a people based on ones own pre-disposition of morals and cultural norms. ... The cultural relativist would boast that since it is culture itself that defines morals, there is no comparison to which one could base morality on. ... Rachels make the point that we cannot draw the conclusion that there is no universal moral truth based on the fact that the subject is merely disagreed upon. ... Would child pornography be morally right in a country because the government decides that it stimulates the economy? ... To believe that moralit...

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There has been a focus within the media about ethics of leadership in which has given the public interest about the scandal in corporate and government corruption. ... Another example occurs when a government politician and official are faced with public scrutiny for their roles in sponsorship scandals. ... This leadership revealed that the highest stage of moral judgment in which reasoning is based on universal principle, and associated with transformational leadership whereas transformational leadership is associated with ethic of care. ...

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Some psychological characteristics may be biologically based and the parent will know in advance what crisis a cloned teenager will go through and how he or she will respond. ... Federal Government because it may provide a way for completely sterile individuals to reproduce. ... Since the United States government doesn't support research on human cloning, and the United Kingdom, France, and Germany have banned cloning, the research making cloning possible may take place in Asia, Eastern Europe, or the Near East. ...

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He continues to say, "...for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails" (80). ... The difference between Machiavelli's guidebook and politics today, is that Machiavelli told the prince to act out for the good of the state, whether it be a moral grey area or not, while politics today is a jungle where selfish men rule and corrupt their governments. ...

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Morals are probably the most important thing in the British Government, because it keeps the country under good order, and provides different ideas and opinions; without morals our country would be perfect. Does Guy de Maupassant create moral issues because it is based on the truth of his past? ... Perhaps it was easier for him to base the stories on his life experiences in Normandy, rather than to "make something up"; as much of his works are set in France, and have French characters. ...

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In order to achieve the above aim, I researched several articles on this issue, and chose four articles to base my paper on. ... He believes that concerns of human cloning "are based on false beliefs about genetic influence and the nature of the individuals that would be produced through cloning."" ... In an article by MSNBC reporter, Alan Boyles (2003), he explores objectively what cloning is, what the issues are, what our government is doing about it, and what other countries are doing about it. ...

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All codes of laws are based on the same principle, but are not quite as violent. ... They used to be in school and in almost every building a person could go into but today the government has stepped in and taken these commandments out of public buildings. ... The Hittite laws gave us the basis of monetary payments and what we base most court cases on today. ...

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Most normal individuals in the modern world would assume that all books written, not published, by man are based on either a portion of the author's imagination, an event (biased or non-biased) in either history or during the life of the author, a straight-out autobiography, or a generalized biography of another person they once knew. ... This perfect land was The type of government in this State is democracy(where people rule the land) because then the people can obtain plenty of freedom to achieve their own pleasures without being pushed around by a superior force. In democracy also is ...

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