Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Ethical Issues

What do you think about the following questions? Please make a few comments on some of them.

1- Should animals be used in scientific experiments?

2- Should humans be cloned?

3- Does a company have the right to read its employees' emails?

4- A. Should we consider addiction a "disease"? What does that mean in terms of the role of the alcoholic or other drug abuser?
(1) Should we collectively pay for drug treatment?
(2) If they enter rehab and relapse, should they be taken back? How many times?

5- Should abortion be allowed? Is this a religious or a legal issue?

6- What about conditions for adopting babies?
(1) Is it okay for gay or lesbian partners to adopt a child?
(2) What about adopting a child of a different race? Or religion?

7- Is there a moral justification for capital punishment, also known as institutional murder?

8- Is it O.K. to shop at a store that sells products made in countries that have bad human rights records?

7 comments:

  1. 1)yes
    2)yes
    3)ıf the email account is special this is not cruel.Yet, if the e mail account is given by the company ,ıt must be read by company because they can sale or share company's information
    5)abortion must be allowed because when people have this problem they usually choose illegal ways so,results are usually bad for them...it is legal issue
    6)(1)ı think gay and lesbian partners must not be given baby,they shouldn t adopt baby since their relationship is a little mixed so their babies can be affected so babies can be gay or lesbian.Thus,government shouldn t give baby to them

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  2. 1-yes they should be used in experiments because they are needed to improve medicine and protect human healths
    2-no
    3-nobody and no association can interfere with these special lives.
    4-actually an addiction is a disease. when we look at the alcoholic or other drug abusers, they can not prevent their lives from alcohol and drug.
    (A)yes we should pay for drug treatment
    5-abortion should not be allowed because everybody has right to live.it is both religious and legal issue.
    6-(1)everybody need to a mother and father. a gay can not behave his children like a mother and a lesbian can not behave her children like father.
    (2)it does not matter.if he or she is a member of a different race or religious, there is not any obstacle to adopt him or her
    7-yes of course.Let's think about a murder who killed 10 person. if you give a punishment except deadth penalty, this situation can not be suitable for justice.To secure the justice government have to give him death penalty
    8-actually it is not O.K. because selling their product means that you are supporting these countries' economically and torture and assimilation and imperialism

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  3. Cem,you seem so interested in ethical issues :)

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  4. 2- People should not be cloned because everyone is unique. Cloning is something unfair i think because if it is possible, it will be too expensive so poor people cannot clone theirselves. In addition, they don't need to because everyone has one life and i think it is enough for people.
    3- I don't think it is a good idea because everyone has a private life so you cannot check or questionize their private life. But if the e-mail is given by the company, you can control it because it is about job safety.
    5- Abortion should not be allowed because it is almost equal to murder. Until the abortion, there are lots of protection ways about sexual life so people inform about these ways. After that, they don't need to have an abortion.
    6-1- It is not ok to adopt a baby for lesbians or gay because it won't be good for child's psychology. Both lesbians and gays have some problems with their gender. So this may effect child's gender in a bad way too.
    2- It won't be a problem to adopt a child of a different race or religion.

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  5. Dear Pelin Hocam , if you give me permission, I want to congratulate to Cem for his comment :)
    I see that Cem wrote a comment which is unforeseeable from him. I think if cem continue in this manner , he will go to faculty soon :)

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