Generally, parents who adopt children have the ability to love them no matter where they came from. ... Therefore, instead of the usual environment of love and support a normal family has, more pressure would be put on the clone because of the higher expectations that are placed upon them to be comparable with the original child. ... loved for his or her physical attributes. ... Although traditional families have founded love on the grounds of commitment and reproduction, not everyone agrees with this notion because some people believe reproduction is not the only way a loving family can be fo...

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Emotional complications arise when members of the family or friends are unable to share the feelings of the person towards animals and find them exaggerated. ... Her husband's inability to understand the extent of his wife's commitment ended up with his accusations of Carolyn's "loving a half-ton blob of blubber and muscle more than she loved him" (Herzog 243). ... People who develop too strong a love of an animal are likely to feel the lack of love and commitment on the part of the members of their family. In such cases, the love and attention they get from animals ma...

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In the Creature's case, due to his repeated rejection by society and his creator, the Creature turns away from his amiable persona, illustrating the significance of love and the formation of positive relations. ... Victor calls the monster malicious, even though he is the one who has not shown the Creature any love nor compassion. ... His thoughts also demonstrate a dangerous pursuit for knowledge that ultimately lead to the deaths of his family members. ... Rather than considering how his scientific venture could affect his friends and family, his focus on his own societal image and rep...

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This concept is clearly shown by the production of children who are not created "from an act of love, but are manufactured to predetermined specifications- (Keeler 46), thus placing the clone into a situation where they would not be in the usual environment of love and support a normal family has. Traditional love is given by encouraging and loving the child to no extent; however, because clones are generally considered objects or "second-class human beings (Keeler 46), the cloned child is instead only looked upon as a standard. ... Regardless of the how the child was created into this world, ...

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"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love." ... As a result, they will share the responsabilities with a fair judgement, based on the abilities and convinience for the family structure as an unity to work, and not because they are expecting the other person to do it. Their sons and daughters will be more likely to repeat this health pattern and continue it in the future when is their time to find a partner and build a family, changing a new generation to be more just. ... Without equality and comprehesion more and mor...

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First of all, Plato would have his guardians feel no attachment to those around them whereas Confucius emphasizes the importance of relationships with family and friends. ... While this scenario might be a little extreme, I believe that it is easier to teach somebody to love rather than not. ... The stress on the importance of friends and family creates a gentleman and sage with strong emotional ties to the ones around him. ... Where the philosopher is taught not to get too attached to other people or to love too much, the sage gets very emotionally invested in others. ... Where a philosopher ...

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She claims that she was in love with that man and wanted to marry him, but she could not because of the cultural practice arrangements of her marriage. ... The taboos are the major reason why Monique fails to divorce her husband making her have a secret an affair with the man that she loves. ... Men are expected to preform physical duties, offer protection to their family and provide basic needs. ... This is because individuals have a right to love whatever person he or she wants. They deserve to get help from their families and share the type of abuses they encounter in the society among o...

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What is the difference between lust and love? Sexologist John Money draws the line between love and lust: "Love exists above the belt, lust below. Love is lyrical. ... Thus more often than not romantic love turns into compassionate love due to the oxytocin and vasopressin amassing in the lovers' brains. ... It is this quality that is shared with humans as well as certain animals that leads to family units, packs, pods whatever they are called they all share a common goal: to provide a better chance of survival and strengthen the species as a whole. ...

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At the conclusion of the novel, Victor refuses to create another, and end the creature's miserable asylum due to the simple belief that beasts cannot nor should live peacefully in the comfort of love and kinship. ... The creature almost falls in love with the family from a distance. ... The creature remarks, "One was old, with silver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love: the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were molded in the finest symmetry" (105). ... His unusual behavior goes unnoticed by his family and friends due to his seemingly...

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Most people take into account the welfare of themselves and their families into consideration before worrying about the welfare of others. When a person lists their priorities or whom they care for the most, almost everyone in the world would place their families before their friends or strangers. Some even place the welfare of their loved ones before themselves; blood is thicker then virtually anything, as it very well should be. ... The underlying motivation behind not killing a person and dying for the sake of loved ones is in fact fitness maximization. ... The proximal mechanisms employe...

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This is the classical view on mate selection, which is fueled by gender biases, but with changing times come changing needs such as technological and industrial advances, life style changes, newly developing family structure and changes in commercial and corporate realms. ... Love matches are distributed across social classes, races, and age groups in a standardized way. "Falling in love can be predicted by matching up the traits of the two individuals and finding whether the combination gave them both a sense of equitable situation (Coltrane, Collins 250." ... Human sexuality, family, frien...

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They think that through love, and guidance anyone with any form of deformity or disease, can lead a normal life. However, the pro-choice or the activists for abortions, argue that if a family is in a state of financial problem, then abortion should be a viable option. ... Many pro-choice beliefs, that the economics of a family necessitates an abortion. ...

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In this case, The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, a strange story about a young man, Gregor Samsa, loyal to his family suddenly changes over night to a beetle-like creature, and ultimately depicting to the reader that he has lost human features and cognitive ability, doesn't directly give the reader any one overall meaning leaving them to wonder what it is all about. ... Woman discrimination and feminism though it was very different in the past it has improved, unlike the situation that nurses and families deal with at the end of life with their loved ones. ... She even specifically sta...

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The ones who fall into the selfish category are individuals who are unaffected when a friend, family member, or acquaintance is earnestly broken down by life's dilemmas. ... Equivalent is a person who has learned and chose to neglect the Prophet Mohammad (May peace be upon him)'s words of wisdom, "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.... The indicated person is one who lives to benefit others, one who believes that everyone deserves happiness and to be loved in their lives. More importantly, the person is one who strives to become t...

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A newborn is brought into the world with no preset notions of good and evil, love and hate, or any other personality or character traits. ... The DeLacey family serves as his first human nurturers. By watching them through their cottage window, the creature learns about love, respect, kindness and pain (Shelley 98). ... When he tries to interact with the peasant family, Felix attacks him with a stick and throws him out of the house, Safie runs away in horror, and Agatha faints (Shelley 122-123). ...

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The creature's emotional and rational development truly begins in the time he spends living in a hovel outside of the DeLacy family cabin. ... Eventually, the creature's naiveté and burning desire for reciprocated love overpower his reason, as he convinces himself that "once they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity.... The creature then reiterates that the denial of his request would initiate fierce violence, as he states that "if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.... Howe...

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Confucianism was a philosophy which proposed that one must acquire a culture of empathy and love for all of humanity. ... The founder of the philosophy, Confucian, proposed that, "It was the responsibility of all individuals to subordinate their own interests and aspirations to the broader needs of the family and the community. This was significant because it placed love in one's heart and assisted individuals in becoming the ideal human being. ...

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To exemplify, the pain one experiences from a physical wound differs from that from a loss of a family member or that from being enslaved although they are all called "pain.... For instance, let us assume that a lady who, as a young girl, used to love chocolate and want to work at a particular chocolate company in the future finally becomes a CEO in the company. ... How can we prove that understanding, or using our rational mind or virtuous action with reason, is higher than sensing, feeling, intuition, or love itself, when any one of these might be what triggers someone to jump into wate...

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Culture, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a raci...

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The revised commandment number four, "Bring children into the world only if they are wanted" (Singer 199), allows for population control as well as prevention of children who were never wanted and not loved. ...

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This is where trouble might settle in and may cause arguments between family and friends, as well as spark wars between enhanced humans versus lesser human beings. ... Fictional characters we have come to love happen to be transhumanist. ...

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Would it forever be a second class sibling, cared for but not loved as a true child? ... Another danger is the sort of "homemade eugenics" where families decide the traits and capacities they want in their children. ...

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Would it forever be the second-class sibling, cared for but not loved as a true child? ... In a sort of "homemade eugenics" where families decide the traits and capacities they want in their children, many clones may be branded as being unnatural. ...

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When you strip away all the layers that have been influenced by society, family, friends and self-interests, what do we find at the core of human nature? That is, are we naturally inclined to act cooperatively towards other people or do we only act in our self-interests, even if that includes underm...

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