Thursday, April 8, 2010

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Abortion could keep life as you want it to be (this is the post i had to redo)

Being a hedonist is being a person who wants to always feel good through pleasure in life, pleasure is the most important thing no matter what. I am a hedonist and abortion would be ethical because when you are choosing not to have a baby it is because you cannot handle it and would not give a good life to that incoming baby. This means that it would be a pleasure in a way because not having the baby would make you keep on fine with your life and so life it before. If you had that baby your life would not be the same and all pleasures that you had always had would not be accomplished because you would have to have the baby. Pregnancy is not always what you want, you can be achieving pleasure with relationships and getting pregnant could happen, not because you want to but because things do not go as you want. Then achieving pleasure would be considered in not having the baby because this would not be your own will, if you are not planning it. If you are a hedonist you would not care if you are killing a baby because everything is done so you get pleasure, so you get what you want and like. Pleasure body is the main chief to happiness but when things go wrong or not as you like in a relationship there is always a way to change back things as you please, so my hedonist opinion towards this statement would be that abortion is a good things if you know that way your life will not change in a way you don’t want it to. I am a hedonist and if my life has no pleasure then I would never chief happiness.

Freedom of Speech by Bentham

In my opinion, people should be allowed to say whatever they want. Freedom of speech is a right everyone has and it is part of the liberty one has as a human being. Therefore the government cannot censor people about what they can and cannot say. I once said that liberty is good because it is pleasant and brings pleasure, whilst the restriction of liberty is painful and therefore bad. Law also restricts liberty and is also bad and painful. Everyone should have the liberty to say and to publish whatever they want. Any government who tries to impose a censure on what can be said is doing wrong and is unethical. Liberty cannot be denied to anyone. Freedom of speech is never unethical. People often have new ideas that may seem odd, unfamiliar and inappropriate but these ideas could actually be very helpful and interesting if one took the time to analyze them. People should not conform into doing whatever a government tells them to do. On the other hand, they have all the liberty to express themselves and this could in many cases lead to finding the truth. All liberty brings pleasure and therefore liberty of speech is also good because it brings pleasure and no pain. Sometimes allowing somebody to express himself in times of oppression might indeed bring good to the greatest number of people. This would be marvelous and would prove that everyone has the ability to think and be entitled to his or her own ideas. Freedom of speech is therefore always ethical and should be allowed as a part of our liberty as humans. Censorship is unethical because everyone has the right to express what he or she wants. Jeremy Bentham (Alex Kawas)

Friday, March 19, 2010

Do the Math!

Euthanasia consists in a doctor-assisted suicide. This is very controversial although we can analyze it using logical positivsm. First of all let's clarify what euthanasia we will be debating. A common one will be voluntary active euthanasia which consists sometimes in a quick injection or other chemical that will automatically kill you. Of course this process will be done with the content of the patient. What could be the outcomes? Analyzing the real world we can surely say that having a painful disease is not fun at all. It is very hard to hold the pain and the best way to get relieved is killing you. Therefore, if you don't want pain, then you will be applicable for euthanasia. Now let's view things with math. Maybe the treatment will cost you $20,000 yearle and you have been suffering from such disease 3 years. That means you have spent $60,000. Euthanasia will only cost you $5000, but it must be done in one payment. In the treatment you pay about $8,000 monthly, $200 daily. In about 20 days, you will have the money to pay for euthanasia saving your family a lot o money. All you have to do is math, just like the logical positivists that trust this system to really make conlusions out of observational data and can help you take the best decision available that will ensure your benefit. Bertrand Russell (Melissa M)

LYING, CHEATING, STEALING, IS IT RIGHT?

Bias on the morality view in our current society, this three factors (lying, cheating, and stealing) are view as negative actions. This is an ethical dilemma because it is a choice that a person has to make, weather he does what it please him or does he comfort to society. Speaking as a Post Modernism, more specifically base on Friederich Nietzsche concept of “I”, I believe that if these factors are suitable for the person, then it is the right path for him. According to Nietzsche, people are responsible for their own actions; we make our own decision because we decide how we are going to live our live. No one tell us hoe live, what decision to make. Regardless of the kind of the decision we made, we are always responsible for the consequences. Lying, cheating, and stealing always bring negative consequence to a person that perform them, but if a person believes that these actions will bring more benefits to him, that it is perfect fir him, then according to his morality he is doing the right thing. But there is also the case for a person who believes that these actions are bad. In their morality, these actions are repulsive. Only good deeds will bring benefits for that person. It all depends on the person weather this actions are right or wrong.

- Fausto (Post-Modernism)

Euthanasia

I have may diffrent thoughts about this subject. The individual is free to choose, when terminally ill, to end his or her life in manner that does not cause pain. Humans ae born in a certain way that are able to choose their own choices and have a free will. Under extreme circumstances sucha as the ones mentioned, if one is terminally ill, one has the right to choose not to keep suffering that will only bring more pain. It is only logic to prevent pain. Not only the body must not be feeling physical pain, but the soul and the mind. On the other side, as a theologist I also believe that our soul is only taken by God, which leave us to theidea tha Go must takeour soul since he is divine. Thus tha idea that are soul is takenonly under God`s will, cannot include extreme situtions when both the body and soul are in extreme suffering.