European Convention on Human Rights

each term and provide examples of how they justify law and human morality. John Stewart Mill, inadvertently created the term Harm Principle in his essay On Liberty, where he defends extensive individual liberty. In chapter one, he introduces the principle that he claims firmly believes in; the Harm Principle. In the paper he bases his idea of this principle on ideas of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the “view that the morally right…

Bodily integrity, the idea that the physical body is inviolable, emphasizing the right people have to their own body. This is Judith Thomson’s main argument in the defense of abortion and how it is permissible in some cases. In “ A Defense of Abortion”, by Thomson she claims that abortion is permissible in some cases when using bodily integrity as their defense. She states that the right to life is not an absolute right. Therefore, in some cases abortion is morally permissible. She uses an…

oppressed, have a sacred ideal to life. These two thoughts will definitely cause strife, on the grounds that a sacred right to life must, by expansion, involve some essential responsibility for an individual’s body, and the body of a slave in America's "particular…

America and its people have relied on lethal injection, the electric chair, and hanging to teach criminals a lesson. The governmental process of putting criminals on death row and having them sit and wait until the day they die just does not sound right. The death penalty is not effective in any way because it does not teach people anything. In my opinion, the government makes itself seem like the bad guy because if one were to kill another and then get put on death row, it is as if the…

So how does an accident make anyone responsible for a pregnancy? As Valerie Tarico states in "I am proabortion, not just prochoice: 10 reasons why we must support the procedure and the choice", humans and contraception are not perfect. About 1 in 11 women still get pregnant although the use of contraception and 1 in 6 people engaging in sex result in pregnancy. Probably the best argument for pro abortion is rape and incest. One does not choose…

I believe the government’s role related to moral issues is to establish laws to protect the rights of those affected by the issue. Today, ethical issues in health care often escalate to a political matter due to the difference of moral values, as well as the unjust treatment of those affected by the issue. The legalization of abortion most likely…

When it comes to human rights, the issue of cultural relativism is widely discussed. Majority of the human rights literature encompasses the western and non-western argument on the right to deny service. As a result of these debates, comes the discussion of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, at first glance, seems like quite a reasonable argument towards safeguarding different cultural groups. However when we begin to analyze the cultural relativism theory, we come to find that it is not…

Government has been around for ages. Although there are many theories why government was first established, nevertheless we need government. We need government because of its beneficial purposes such as maintaining order, providing public services, and providing protection. Also through the film “Lord Of the Flies” we’ll see why we need government. One of the reasons we need government is because it maintains order. What this means is that the government makes the rules and keeps us…

It seems as whenever there is a discussion, debate, or civic civil discourse in a room full of people, the room temperature is higher than normal. It is not any coincidence. The temperature rises because of disagreements between bantering groups of people. These days, it seems as if almost every debate or conversation getsgrows heated due to the inability or unwillingness of participants to work together, leading to arrogant guffawing and judging making the environment impotent in disagreements…

Most of the time, foreigners are nice to people living in the country they are travelling to. This is because they allready expect to socialize with other cultures and other races from the moment they leave their country. However, how tolerant they are, actually depends on the culture they come from, wether is a conservative culture or an open minded one, and how used to they are to interacting with other cultures. In some cases, it depends on their beliefs, and how it is expected from them to…