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Instead, religious societies have targeted religious and racial minorities as well as focusing a tremendous hatred towards woman. The witch hunts of the Inquisition are a great example of how a religious society not only failed to protect the most vulnerable among them, but actually targeted them and caused them great harm. Therefore, the most vulnerable among us would probably be best protected by a secular society.
However, I disagree with the notion that those who would be least well off in a secular society would still will to have a secular society. For centuries religion has been a way to exert power. It was used to justify the Crusades, which transferred tremendous wealth from the East to Europe. It was...
It was used to justify elements of the multiple Holocausts that have occurred in Eastern Europe over the last several histories. It is still used to deny right to people. For example, the main arguments against legalizing gay marriage in the United States have been religious arguments. The people who would be least well off in a secular society are those people who would perceive a loss of power, money, or privilege in a secular society. Most of these people vehemently resist the idea of a society that is not controlled by some aspect of a religion. One need only to have watched some of this year's presidential primaries to see what an important role religious issues are playing in this political contest to see how threatened many people are by the idea of a having a secular society. As a result, I simply cannot agree that those who would be least well off in a secular society would still want to have a secular society. For those people, at least in modern America, the idea of religious freedom simply means that they should be able to practice their religion without interference, not that others should have that type of freedom.
Dworkin's two models are extremes in their own right with regard to individual rights; the first model puts balancing individual rights against other social goals. The second model holds that one should err on the side of individual rights instead of balancing them among a whole society. These two models do not encompass a middle ground of a liberal democracy such as the U.S. when examining the place that individual
" The Ecumenical Review, 54. Kneen looks at agricultural genetic engineering and takes the view that because agricultural genetic engineering may help solve food shortage problems as well as enhance the environment, such activities should be looked at positively. Kneen puts good arguments together to make his points, but also writes from a biased viewpoint, so his article should be used in conjunction with other writers who are not quite so
The first condition of libertarianism is thus fulfilled. Now we come to the second part. If an employer chooses to have his employees tested, he should have made it absolutely clear when hiring them that they would be tested. It was then up to them to decide whether they wanted to work for his firm or not. If the employer decided to have a new policy of drug testing
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Capital Punishment Analysis of "The Death Sentence" by Sidney Hook Sidney Hook's analysis of the capital punishment and its effect and implications in the society are outlined in his article entitled, "The Capital Punishment." In his article, Hook discusses the different perspectives wherein the debate over the implementation or abolishment of capital punishment is discussed. Hook contends that individuals and groups that favor the implementation of capital punishment tend to subsist to
94). The modern legal definition of disease provides a useful starting point for an examination of the concept of disease and how it is regarded by various disciplines. According to Black's Law Dictionary (1990), disease is a "deviation from the healthy or normal condition of any of the functions or tissues of the body. An alternation in the state of the body or some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing