...Why Human Rights are Essential The first documented instance of Human Rights was by Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE. Cyrus the Great was an ancient ruler of Persia who freed the slaves of Babylon after defeating them. This was the first known documented instance of human rights. Cyrus’ actions were a model for many later historians. Human Rights have been in existence since ancient times and belong to every human regardless of class, race, or status. Human Rights are standards that allow people to live with, dignity, freedom, equality and peace. These rights are necessary to a functioning society. They are important because they give us the ability to live in equality with one another as humans and live in peace. Human Rights also provide peace and justice in a struggling society and enables us to be clearly entitled to basic necessities as humans....
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...consequentialists ethical theories which are ethical egoism and utilitarianism. Both of these theories believe that humans should behave in ways that will bring out good consequences. The difference between the two are that they disagree on who should benefit from these consequences. Ethical egoism says that human beings should act in their own self-interest, where utilitarians basically say that human beings should act in interest of all concerned. Now deep into the ethical egoism my code would more address universal ethical egoism because like most other theories it’s universal. An ethical theory that applies to all human beings. This theory does not state only what the individual should do, rather it concerning itself with all human beings should do if they want to be moral. They should act in their own self-interest. On the other hand with utilitarianism is addressed by stating that everyone should perform that act which will bring about the greatest amount of good over bad for everyone affected by the act. The belief is to not believe in setting up rules for action because they feel that each situation and each person are different. Each individual must assess the situation they are involved in and try to figure out which act would bring about the greatest amount of good consequences with the least amount of bad consequences, not just for themselves as egoism, but for everyone involved in the situation. In non-consequentialists, my code addresses this by the approach of each...
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...What is Human Services? 1 What is Human Services? What is Human Services? 2 It is important that all citizens in our country have options, programs and opportunities put in place by our government to assist and help them survive and have the minimal tools that is required to live efficiently if a situation occurs that will enable the individual not to be able to sufficiently provide for their selves. Our Government does provide the resources to ensure economic needs and baselines are met for everyone. They type of agencies that are available to assist those who need help are called Human Services. Human Services offers a wide range of services. Services offered at a Human Service Agency can be free or mandated. Paid services are also seeked by individuals who need to have their individualized needs met. Regardless of what Human Service resource is being used there is a common goal for all Human Service agencies. That goal is to make ones circumstances better, improve their mental or physical quality of daily living, increase one’s ability to provide better for their selves mentally and financially, teach individual techniques and trades that will make them more self-efficient, direct them to additional resources that are beneficial to enhancing their life in a positive way and much, much more. There is a long history of Human Services. Human Services has had different names in the past such as charity or goodwill. There have not always been laws that...
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...especially when it comes to whether or not humans and animals should be allowed different rights, or whether they are completely equal. This also includes whether or not all humans should be equal. Moreover another huge concern with ethics is when an unethical action might be considered the best choice; for example it is considered unethical to use animals to do research, but in some cases this might looked past. Depending upon the benefits of the research some might be slightly ok with using the animals. Often there is controversy over whether or not humans and animals should be held to an equal level, and even more whether or not animals can feel pain just as humans. Some just like Peter Singer who Francis Fukuyama discussed in his essay, seem to believe that animals should be held to a higher power and be considered more valuable than that of humans. Fukuyama quotes from Peter Singer in his article “Human Dignity”, “the need for animal rights, since animals can experience pain and suffering as well as humans, and the downgrading of the rights of infants and elderly people who lack certain key traits, like self-awareness, that would allow them to anticipate pain. The rights of certain animals in his view, deserve greater respect than those of certain human beings” (Fukuyama 190). Overall, Singer is saying that depending upon the mental ability of the human and depending upon the animal it may be in demand of much more reverence than the human. Of course, there are several opinions...
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...At some point in their lives, everyone has had the thought that the world would be a better place if everyone acted like the him/herself. While it is most likely true that certain aspects of a person would help the world if widespread, this is limited to specific traits, not their entire personality. In truth, if everyone acted the same, society would eventually be destroyed. One of the most common answers as to why society would not function if everyone had same personality is that every person has a desire that would negatively affect someone else. One of Thomas Hobbes’ most famous quotes is that “The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (Santoso). This was Hobbes’ way of expressing that human nature is bad, and that humans will drown others if it means they can save themselves (Santoso). This is clear evidence that the very nature of human beings is to be willing to harm others for their own benefit. When considering the hypothetical, it also becomes apparent that if someone is willing to hurt another for their own benefit, everyone else is just as willing. This will result in a cycle of people hurting each other, which will give rise to everyone hating everyone else. Every person will be forced to work by themselves, and as a result society would be destroyed....
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...While correlation between both works are present, Feed and Wall-E are not identical; each works have differences, starting off with the human’s habitat. In Feed, everyone lives on Earth. Due to the abundant amounts of pollution, Earth is uninhabitable. Because of this, everyone lives in “tubes” on Earth to keep away from the pollution. While the characters do travel into space and on various planets and moons (Mars, one of Jupiter’s moon, the Earth’s moon, etc.), they still live in the wrecked junkyard of which is Earth. Also, no one seems to mind the degrading environment. Everyone in the novel tries to make the scenario vague; everyone treats lesions (which are caused by the contaminated air) as a norm instead of worrying about the air conditions. However, in...
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...duty-based Categorical Imperative, also known as moral commands, as a foundation for all other rules and will be true in any circumstance purely based on reason. These tell everyone what to do and don’t depend on anything else, such as personal desires. Within the Categorical Imperative, Kant outlines three important maxims in ‘The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals’ which test how morally acceptable an action is. The first maxim states: “Always act in such a way that you can also will that the maxim of your action should be a universal law”. This can be interpreted to mean that only do something if it can be universalised and if it’s something that will always be acceptable for anyone to do. If it can’t be universalised then it is not a valid moral rule. To illustrate this, Kant uses the example of suicide, claiming that it is always wrong because it can’t be made a universal law. He asks us to consider if we would want everyone to take their own life in any situation, even if it is to escape a state of suffering and despair. Stealing would also be considered never to be morally acceptable in Kantian Ethics since it cannot be universalised as well. If it was to be universalised, everyone would be stealing from each other, therefore human relationships would fail because trust is the foundation of human relationships. Furthermore, this maxim is important in order for there to be a harmonious society. The second says: “Act so that you treat humanity, both in your own person...
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...categories of, or for all, living entities ("Egalitarianism"). Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status. Equity is probably one of the most fundamental values common to all people in a society. Equity can be elusive; however, it is usually defined in terms of how equals are treated by government policies and the legal system, and how we decide who these equals are. The concept of equality is multifaceted; the literature on theories of equality is immense and the application of these theories is complex. My definition of equality is the state or quality of being equal. Should people be truly treated equally? Can it ever be possible to achieve true equality even if we wanted to? No. It’s just not in our nature nor is it fair to the citizens around us. It hides people’s true talents, will cause chaos without the government, and it isn’t fair financially. Besides, no one, no country, or nothing’s perfect. We shouldn’t or can’t force everyone into thinking they’re equal and should be treated the same, it’s just never going to happen. In the novel Animal Farm (Orwell), Orwell writes about a world where animals overthrow the oppressive farmer Mr. Jones and try to construct a society based on the founding principal that all animals are equal. As I read Animal Farm, it was discovered that the animal society is not so different from human society. Many societies have attempted to implement this idea of equality at the onset of a revolution...
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...What It Means To Be Human I have never pondered on such a question that reflects the whole human race and what it means to be a human being. What it means to be a human being is not just having a face, eyes, heart, or being able to drive a car, or to own a house. Being a human being is much more than that, deeper and more passionate. Being a human being is to have the ability to know what is right and wrong, having rational thought and to think deeply beyond the tangible things in the world, and being a human being is to find love. Yet as I think deeply into this more and more, I see that those things are not as important to be a human being, simply because you can live without those things; but to really live and thrive and build a race and society, being a human being is to have the ability to build relationships around anyone and everyone around us. What it means to be a human being is to have relationships. Many people may argue with this person’s opinion on the meaning of being a human being, but this is an opinion that should be taken into consideration. As all humans know, what makes us unique from animals is our ability to drive cars, create masterpieces of art, build cathedrals, and invent things no one would think of. However, those are only the tangible aspects of being a human being. If we all think carefully, and work out many other aspects to what makes us human, we should find that all other answers inadequate. What makes us truly unique and great is our ability...
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...billion people on this planet, or 58 percent of the world, that do not.” (Rampton, 2015). Their is this gap because of things such as taxes, policies, and operational issues in countries, in the end making the internet way too expensive for some people to afford it and making the Internet inaccessible to a lot of people in the world. Many people in underdeveloped countries do not have access to the Internet like most people do. But that do not mean their are people in developed countries with access, as not everyone is privileged and many financial barriers stand in the way. We sometimes even forget the some counties in the world put restrict on what they want their users to see. In places like China the citizens have access to the Internet by it is limited and filtered by the government. All humans have the right to access the Internet, but they also have the right to access an uncensored Internet, so that can they are able to form their own opinion. Over all not everyone has an equal opportunity and access to the online world, their is a divide between the haves and have nots so it is important we advocate for the disadvantaged groups without access to the Internet....
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...tormenting the human world ever since its beginning. According to the Oxford dictionary, poverty is "the state of lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society." (Poverty, n. pag) Poverty is the insufficiency of money and resources to meet the basic needs of life. It is also the deprivation of participation in economic, social and political decision-making that affects one's life. Unfortunately, it is the state of majority of the countries. The rich get richer, while the poor get poorer, the gap between them increases over time. The issue of poverty is not justifiable in both societal and individual level. Therefore, preventing poverty is one of the goals of the international organizations like United Nations and the World Bank. Ever since the time of Jesus Christ, in accordance with what the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Church's Social Teaching preach, the issue of global poverty is unjustified, and therefore, is preventable by the efforts of the human world. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines poverty as not only the lack of material, but also cultural and religious aspects as well. Poverty is the human misery caused by material deprivation, unjust oppression, physical and psychological illness. However, in this essay, the main concern argued is the deprivation of material, resources and services. The Catechism looks at poverty from different views. It does not justify poverty in the human world. The Catechism...
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...MY IDEAL SOCIETY Free will is a property of human nature that depends solely on the individual. Every individual in a free society has the ability to make any decision that impacts his or her own life. This means that any one person can use their own free will to alter or hamper the ideals possessed by another individual within the society. This notion goes against the grains of the idea of an ideal society. An ideal society would have to provide the ideal conditions for all those who lived within it. The principles and standards of the inhabitants within the society would determine these ideal conditions. If an individual within this model society could alter the life of another individual within the society, the ideals of the second individual may be broken; this consequently undermines and destroys the concept of an absolute ideal society. Thomas More’s Utopia carries the premise that everyone within the utopian society does what is necessary for the good of the society, and that one’s free will would consist of only what is beneficial to the culture. This, in itself, is limiting free will by excluding the possibility of freely doing what is not beneficial to the culture. More said, the citizens, “(do) not waste their time in idleness or self-indulgence,” but who’s to say that they cannot? Absolute free will gives each citizen the ability to do whatever they feel inclined to do, even perhaps, idle or self-indulge. In Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the idea of free will...
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...foundational values are altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice (The American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2008, p. 27). The value I feel relates best to me and my future nursing practice is human dignity. Without respecting this value, it is very hard to be a caring, devoted and professional nurse. Respecting human dignity is vital. In The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, human dignity is defined as “respect for the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations” (AACN, 2008, p....
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...is a type of license from the government that gives the right to some companies to control the use of the gene they have patented. Nowadays, gene patenting has become a hot debate all over the world. There are those who believe that human genes should not be patented such as Michael Crichton. He wrote an article named “Patenting Life” in the New York Times against gene patenting. On the other hand, there are also some people who believe that some types of genes can be patented such as John E. Calfee. He also wrote an article named “Decoding the use of Gene Patents” in The American Magazine. The article explained his thought about why human genes can be patents. However, gene patenting is an important thing that...
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...Human Trafficking: The World is a Scary Place Dating back to the early 1400s, human trafficking has been a continuous world issue. It all began with the Portuguese buying and selling Africans to use them as slaves. Ever since then, human trafficking has escalated to something more terrifying and is becoming a larger issue. Between sex and labor trafficking, human trafficking is a huge issue worldwide. To work beyond what the nation has already accomplished, we can further educate ourselves to help protect those in danger of what human trafficking entails. Why is it a Big Deal? Continuing through the 1600s, African slave trade began to gain countries, including: Spain, North America, Holland, France, Sweden, and Denmark. Beginning in 1904...
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