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Capital Punishment: Against
Number of Words: 2132 / Number of Pages: 8
... in today's society that certain individuals
are worth more than others. When the value of life is lessened under certain
circumstances such as the life of a murderer, what is stopping others from
creating their own circumstances for the value of one's life such as race, class,
religion, and economics. Immanual Kant, a great philosopher of ethics, came up
with the Categorical Imperative, which is a universal command or rule that
states that society and individuals "must act in such a way that you can will
that your actions become a universal law for all to follow" (Palmer 265). There
must be some se ...
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Gun Control In The U.S.
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... to cause bodily harm after a couple weeks.
The problem with this method of gun control is that it stops the ordinary citizen from purchasing a gun on the whim, but it actually protects the common criminal. Underage buyers and other delinquents can purchase mass quantities of weapons through "dummy buyers" that have clean backgrounds. So if a burglar enters a house with full intention to maim or kill, the innocent victim (who can't get a gun to protect his family because he was arrested for drunk driving seven years ago) is simply a victim of a law that supports black market trade. There a ...
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Illegal Immigration
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... laws against illegal immigrants and that
70% of Americans want no more than 300,000 legal immigrants to enter the U.S.
per year. In fact, N.P.G. says that 20% of Americans want immigration
completely stopped. Taking these numbers as the truth, it is clear that America
thinks that we have too many immigrants.
Such a dislike of immigration is interesting considering the success of
past immigration. Many people would say that today's immigrants are somehow
different than those of the past. However, the truth is that the
similarities between the immigrants of today and those of the past are nume ...
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Capital Punishment: Does The End Justify The Means?
Number of Words: 1487 / Number of Pages: 6
... a moral obligation to protect the safety and the welfare of its
citizens. Murderers threaten this safety and welfare. Only by putting murderers
to death can society ensure that convicted killers do not kill again.
Second, those favoring capital punishment contend that society should
support those practices that will bring about the greatest balance of good over
evil, and capital punishment is one such practice. Capital punishment benefits
society because it may deter violent crime. While it is difficult to produce
direct evidence to support this claim since, by definition, those who are
deterred by ...
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The Threat Of Death
Number of Words: 1377 / Number of Pages: 6
... in particular
studies.
The most obvious deterring justification is the severity of punishment
(Calebresi 19). This means, put simply, to punish for a crime in a way that the
punishment outweighs the crime. If the punishment for robbing a bank is to
spend one day in jail, then bank robbing would become a daily occurance. On the
same note, if there is a reward for a lost item of jewelry and the reward is
less than the selling price for that jewelry, the finder has no reason to bring
it back. On the other hand, if the reward exceeds the value of the jewelry, the
new owner will bring it back very p ...
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Rockefeller Drug Laws
Number of Words: 350 / Number of Pages: 2
... be given more time in jail than a rapist, or murderer? At least if you commit those crimes you can have the chance to appeal and get out on good behavior. Seriously what can be the good of keeping these laws?
The worst thing about the is that they just don’t work. The enactment of these laws has not stopped the use or the sale of drugs, an new method for dealing with drug crimes is needed. This may mean more education, or more rehab facilities, or even still sending the criminals to jail, but for a more reasonable amount of time, or at least for an amount of time that corresponds to what th ...
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Marijuana Legalization
Number of Words: 734 / Number of Pages: 3
... that public treasuries would have an increase of ten billion dollars a year.
The importance of the issue for the legalization of marijuana is gaining importance as the use of marijuana increases. In the 1970’s, America faced a significant drug problem. Through education, law enforcement and treatment, illicit drug use was reduced in the 1980’s by fifty percent. Teenagers graduating in 1992 were fifty percent less likely to use drugs than were those who graduated in 1979. (“Marijuana as a Medicine,” California Narcotic Officers Association, www.cnoa.org/marijuana.) In 1993, after twelve years of de ...
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Capital Punishment: Costs Of The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 605 / Number of Pages: 3
... argument contends that we spend
too much money incarcerating prisoners for life. We probably do but the price
tag on issuing a death sentence according to a Florida study is $3.1 million
compared to $1 million for a life sentence; a 3100% difference (Walker 1994,
108). Imagine your death being valued at $3.1 million - how flattering. Based
on these figures, the difference in the price of an execution and the price of
life behind bars is enough to feed 7,200 starving children for ten years.
The price of an execution is amazing. Naturally, for such a price, we
should consider our "valued" retu ...
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The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... money could be saved to use on
something more valuable. In addition, teenagers would not feel as though
they were being controlled.
In addition to saving money, studies show that alcohol is easily
obtained and most eighteen-year-olds who do so drink sensibly. A ten-year-
old study found that youngsters who experiment moderately are better-
adjusted than youngsters who are completely abstinent. It is hard not
allowing eighteen-year-olds to drink when over 90% of the underage
population say it is very easy to obtain alcohol. A 1994 study on substance
abuse found that 55.7% of eighteen-year-olds ...
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Capital Punishment: For
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... or ‘capital punishment' are heard, they
obviously are disturbing and uncomfortable, but so are their crimes. There is
no hope for criminals with this kind of behavior and mentality. I believe that
capital punishment is the key necessity.
If capital punishment was enforced for severe crimes, it would eliminate a
fair amount of tax money going towards the judiciary system. If a prison were
to maintain a deadly criminal sentenced for life starting at the age of thirty
and living to seventy, it would cost tax payers an unbelievable amount of two
million one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollar ...
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