Topic: Should vaccines be required for Children? state your position on the issue, and identify three premise reasons Disagree with vaccines being required in children Opposing reasons Vaccine-preventable diseases have not disappeared so vaccination is still necessary. Vaccines provide economic benefits for society. The ingredients in vaccines are safe in the amounts used. For the […]

Scenario Your child comes home from school with an assignment sheet for a school project. They are very excited about the project and begin work immediately, doing research on the Internet and gathering materials. You read over the assignment sheet and notice that your child is not including all of the required items in the […]

Review the following ethical dilemmas: John Doe has decided to clone himself. He is sterile. He cannot find anyone to marry him. He wishes to have children. He knows that he will not be able to love a child that is adopted or not connected directly to him biologically. He will be making use of […]

Initial Post Instructions St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God […]

   1- From The reading, please discuss what was most important to you and why in 200 words. Please include the appropriate citation for the source used in your answer.  2- From the outline, discuss what has been the “muddiest” point so far in this week? That is, what topic remains the least clear to […]

I. Who is in a City-State? What are their roles? What are their characteristics? II. Reply to these responses: 1. In Aristotle's opinion, the city-state or ''polis'', as he has referred to it as, must be the highest kind of such communities striving for the best. Aristotle makes this claim in the following sentence; ''Any […]

  Comment on a topic of interest to you from this week's reading, and respond to at least two of your classmates' posts.  Ask a question of your classmates or of me, discuss why you found the topic interesting, share additional resources you may have found on the topic, and look for posts on the topic that […]

Write a 700- to 1,050-word on drug policies in the United States. Include the following: Describe the history of drug use and policy legislation in the United States. Describe the role of law enforcement and drug enforcement agencies in drug policy enforcement. Describe different drug policies in the United States and their effects on society. Include a […]

Using our Best Man or Worst Man case study, what should everyone do according to Subjectivism, Relativism, or Emotivism? Choose two theories and apply them.  Be sure you include any problems that will be encountered in applying the theories and whether you can address them, or if you think using the theory won’t be helpful […]

The study of ethics and philosophy is one that brings many different kinds of "thinkers" together. One person's philosophy on ethics is another person's philosophy on evil. We will be working this term on constructing personal ethical bases and understanding how ethical codes (both personal and professional) are created and followed. To start us thinking […]