there are personal choices involved when deciding if an action is right or wrong, violence in a society hinges on the ideology of authority. When an authority figure has an ideology that encourages violence a society will be more prone to accept brutality because of the importance of leadership. People generally are brought up to view authority as something that should be obeyed and respected, making it harder to distinguish what is right when obedience means violence. Moreover, the ideology of a leader…

Is it right or wrong to lie? This specific issue had been discussed throughout the whole world for years, and years, and it depends on the opinions of each and every one of us, to decide whether it is right or wrong to lie to others. Human has an instinct to lie. The definition of a lie is “an intentionally false statement”. In different situations, lies are used in different ways. There are lies called “white lies”, and ones called “dark lies”. “White lies” are tiny lies, and a rather helpful…

Forgive me if I seem distracted, I’ve been preoccupied of late with questions of morality. Of right and wrong, what’s just and what’s not. Sometimes the delineation between the two is a sharp line, not to be crossed, other times that line is skewed, blurred even. But these questions...these questions are vital ones, because they tether us to humanity. As such, I invite you to consider these questions with me. At some point in your lives, all of you here are liable to wind up in a courthouse. Traffic…

Abortion: Right or Wrong? The famous writer Larry Barretto said, Babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of God.” Abortion takes away a baby’s life, which begins at conception. A fetus’s heart begins to beat in just the first few weeks of the pregnancy. Women can have an abortion up to 9 weeks into the pregnancy. At nine weeks, the infant can make a fist, and the head is almost half the size of the entire body. The baby begins to have buds for baby teeth to appear. Some women still have…

Right or Wrong? (A depiction on the fact that even educators can be challenged if you test the words that are spoken by the teachers.) In the year 427 BC a baby boy was born to distinguished family in Athens. He was born into a family of four. With his brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus his life was what everyone else envied. Plato had everything, but one day he met a man that was teaching in the town square. Socrates shared idea about wisdom, justice and the true meaning of life. When Plato was twenty-eight…

in ethics shows all the right things about genetic therapy. The first-time gene therapy was used on a patient dates back in the 1990s when a four-year-old girl had adenosine deaminase deficiency. With this disease, her white blood cells were not doing their job and left her prone to infections. Through the power of genetic therapy some of her white blood cells were extracted, altered to produce adenosine deaminase, and reinjected. This treatment not only saved her life from dangerous diseases…

Relativism In Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Pojman states that morality refers to the actions we take either right or wrong. This paper should analyze the favor of moral objectivism and the rejection of ethical relativism. According to Pojman, “Ethical relativism holds that moral rightness and wrongness of actions varies from society to society or individual to individual.” (p.19) That is, what is considered right in one society, might be considered wrong in another society (Diversity thesis)…

that branch off of it, many of which have popped up in recent years. Yet, what people do not realize is that bisexuality, like many other sexual orientations, can be fluid and different for each person choosing to identify with it. There is no right or wrong definition; yet we normally only see one definition when bisexuality is talked about. And that is if it is talked about at all. Bisexuality is often left out of LGBTQIA+ representation, or is portrayed in a stereotypical way that makes it hard…

A Right or A Wrong Matthew Donnelly loved life. But Matthew wanted to die. For thirty years, he had conducted research on the use of x-rays. Now, skin cancer riddled his tortured body. He had lost his nose, his left hand, two fingers on his right hand, and part of his jaw. He was left blind and was slowly deteriorating. The pain was unrelenting. Doctors estimated that he had a year to live. Lying in bed with excruciating pain, he pleaded to be put out of his misery, he wanted to die now. His pleas…

foot on this Earth we have been wired into believing what is right and what is wrong. Right and wrong originated with an opinion, therefore making the world we live in completely flawed. Everything we perceive to be the right thing to do, could have possibly been the opposite if someone had said so. Today, right and wrong is based off of the majority of society and what we believe affects what we chose to do. There is no right or wrong, not even morals, just actions. Humans act on impulse and doubt…