An important Catholic Social Teaching is the respect for human life. Jesus said "I have come that you may have life, and have it in abundance" John 10:10, this means that every life is a blessing from God so each life deserves to be valued and dignified as we are made in the image and likeness of God. ... God created life and he is the only one who is able to take it away from us, as humans we are simply caretakers of human life so it is not our decision weather or not we can destroy it. ... Pope Francis says, "The right to life is the first human right. ... Nowadays efforts ar...

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One may look down upon on people who actively use violence to solve issues in their life and may think of them as savage and animal like. ... However, in a life-threatening or precarious position, morality shifts from consciousness and, as a result, this maliciousness arrives as a common occurrence. ... Like Piggy, Ralph is torn between the regret for the past and the hope of a doubtful return home, while Jack and his tribe are engrossed by the hunt and the dance and the swim which take their lives a continuous present.... Jack and his following have reverted to the baser instinct of human na...

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Medical ethics is simply ethics applied to a particular area of our lives... medicine... ... According to the philosphers of this genra, the sancity of life is also an absolute. " I swear by Apollo, the physician, and Aslepius...I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel..."... The mode to acquiring knowledge is existance, life and thus life must be protected as an absolute. In accordance to this philosphical tradtion, a medical ethicist, viewing a situation through absolute truth, would have to tailor his point of view through immutable truths, such as the...

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Likewise, to the claim that morality is relative to the culture in which one lives there are some puzzling rebuttals, however, with some rationalization one may arrive at a plausible argument for ethnic relativism. ...

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The first traditional commandment is, " Treat all human life as of equal worth" (Singer 190). ... The statement makes more sense on paper or just being heard, but its application in life is almost impossible to ensure. In comparison to the first old ethic, the first new ethic states, "Recognize that the worth of human life varies" (Singer 190). ... The next commandment of old ethics is, " Never intentionally take innocent human life" (Singer 192). ... The final of these five old commandments state, " Treat all human life as always more precious than any non-human life" (Singer 201). ...

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Mill deals with the objection to the baseness of his theory in the following way: "To suppose that life has (as [detractors] express it) no higher end than pleasure- no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit- they designate as utterly mean and groveling; as a doctrine worthy only of swine... ... If this supposition were true, the charge could not be gainsaid, but would then be no longer an imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the rule of life which is good enough for the one would be good enough for the other... ... This al...

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This crisis confronts us with a human self-understanding in relation to nature particular to our time, which has become life threatening to the existence of large sections of mankind as well as of numerous other living beings. ... We conclude from a diversity of perspectives that a way of technological thinking and acting is so implicitly involved in each facet of human life, that its domain of application can hardly be demarcated. ... The attention for the metaphysical dimension of human life is from now on based on a longing for knowing the truth of an invisible Creator. ... It derives ...

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