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While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

as the support of civilised and social community. He stated he did not believe that law should be based on any moral codes, in thi...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

even when it comes to anonymous tip lines. The drug dealer will figure out who called and then, that endangers the life of the tip...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

though he had a good chance of full recovery. This suggests that patients be allowed to terminate their lives if they are in sever...