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Issues surrounding the use of cognitive enhancers by healthy adults have given rise to numerous ethical concerns. It may be considered unnatural, unfair to those who cannot or do not use them, or unsafe in certain ways, and therefore...
Debate over the ethics of belief has centered around two famous essays: W. K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief, and William James' The Will to Believe." The former argues that it is never morally right to believe or accept a...
In this paper I analyze and critique Gert's views on death, tracing the evolution of his ideas throughout his career. I argue that the definitions-criteria-tests framework that he and his colleagues introduced, along with their approach...
This paper examines Greek Life and recreational drug use as two pillars of the collegiate society where college students are violating the 1st and 3rd formulations of Kant's categorical imperative. This is done by the analysis of the...
Known as set point theory in psychology, humans possess the innate ability to emotionally adapt to any livable situation and eventually return to their natural level of cheerfulness. In my argument, I claim that when applied to criminals...
This essay focuses on the various types of and motives for genetic modification and their implications. The two main delineations are medical and cosmetic genetic engineering. This essay argues for medical engineering, while arguing...
The controversy surrounding the dead donor rule and the adequacy of neurological criteria for death continues unabated. However, despite disagreement on fundamental theoretical questions, I argue that there is significant (but not...
Mug shot publishing is a growing industry that involves releasing and publishing mug shots online or in print. Releasing images of suspects who are not convicted of crimes raises many moral concerns. Often these images become popular...
Due to the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA), in the United States it is illegal to perform solid organ donation between HIV-positive patients. If NOTA was amended it would provide organs, such as kidneys, to HIV- positive...
Since birth, children are force fed concepts regarding dietary needs and requirements. In America, the cultural norm is to eat animal products and such practices are rarely questioned. Vegetarianism and veganism are considered to be a...
Embryonic stem cell research involves the destruction of an embryo after stem cells are extracted. The ethical considerations of destroying an embryo results in a controversy where proponents of the research are pitted against pro life...
The digital age has expanded the problem of bullying onto online platforms, which serve as adult-free havens for children to congregate and inflict pain on one another. This paper examines the role of the school system in cases of...
In this paper, I discuss why conscientious objection should not be used in cases of abortion. According to a modern day interpretation of the Hippocratic oath, doctors have the responsibility to do whatever it takes to better the lives...
This paper will respond to previous approaches for choosing the most moral career. It will provide motivation for making an ethical career choice not based on a consequentialism. Natural Law Theory will be used in combination with Virtue...
Universal HIV testing is a newly developing idea in the United States. While some authors have addressed the ethical implications of this idea using countries in Africa as models, this paper explores mandatory HIV testing in the US, ...
This is an argument against overprotective parenting. Those who do so are creating an environment that limits their children's psychological and moral growth and development. Overprotective parents control two very important aspects of...
This thesis deals with corruption and moral blame. It examines the moral components that sufficiently establish moral blame, and suggests that given certain circumstances, moral actors can be without desert of moral blame for engaging in...
In this paper I will discuss the morality of life supporting measures. I argue that once an individual is either permanently unconscious or is in persistent vegetative state that it is morally permissible to cease life supporting...
Embryonic stem cell research is on the frontiers of medicine as of late and holds the potential for improving practices such as organ donation and drug testing. However, the procedures involved in embryonic stem cell research are rooted...
This paper discusses the morality behind euthanasia of terminally ill patients. I argue for euthanasia by explaining that everyone has the right to his or her own body and to death, that death is a private matter that should not be...
This paper examines how divorced parents can ethically create custody arrangements for their adolescents. It argues for a parental right to have custody of the child, suggesting that both parents should split custody. These parental...
This paper explores the ethical issues surrounding cognitive enhancement, focusing on the long-term societal effects and logistics of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement use. Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancements are being used at a...
Although there has been much debate about the immorality or moral permissibility of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia separately, there is little discussion encompassing both debates together. I argue in favor of the moral...
In this paper I aim to question the morality of certain activities that sororities practice. The definition of hazing in this article came from several sources, such as university and national PanHellenic association websites. Hazing is...
In recent decades, the cesarean section has become an increasingly common mode of childbirth. Since 1999, there has also been a drastic decrease in vaginal births after cesarean sections (VBACs), with more women and physicians instead...
Abortion, one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary philosophy, has garnered a large amount of discussion over time. One of the most influential writings on this topic is Judith Jarvis Thomson's A Defense of Abortion. In...
Divine command metaethics comes in various forms. In this paper I examine three previously proposed relationships between morality and divine commands - Analysis, Causation, and Reduction - and determine that the Reduction view is most...
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