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  The death penalty in America is a flawed, expensive policy, defined by bias and error. It targets the most vulnerable people in our society and corrupts the integrity of our criminal justice system. From police officers to family members of murder victims, Americans are recognizing that the death penalty does not make us safer. Most  death penalty  cases involve the execution of murderers although  capital punishment  can also be applied for treason, espionage, and other crimes. Proponents of the  death penalty  say it is an  important  tool for preserving law and order, deters crime, and costs less than life imprisonment. The case against  capital punishment  is often made on the basis that society has a  moral  obligation to protect human life, not take it. ... There is no evidence to support the claim that the  death penalty  is a more effective deterrent of violent crime than, say, life imprisonment. Capita...

What is a norm ? Principle that is imposed or adopted to direct the conduct or the correct performance of an action or the correct development of an activity. types of norms social norms: Social norms are a set of rules that the people of a community must follow to have a better coexistence, to which the behaviors, tasks and activities of the human being must be adjusted. The set or system of norms, rules or duties that regulates the actions of individuals among themselves. Familiar norms: All the combination of rules that are teach to the poeple who belongs to a certain family and somethings that they need to follow in order to be on a good ambient. Religous norms Religious norms are those laws considered obligatory for man to achieve sanctity. These types of norms pose the demands that man must meet to please God and thus earn a passage to paradise . Legal norms:  A  legal norm  is a binding rule or principle, or  norm , that organisations of sovereign power promul...

 objectivity:  In one sense, a particular   ethical  judgment is  objective  if and only if it is correct, where this is an evaluation of the judgment itself, not of how it is formed or sustained. ... If  ethica l  judgments are beliefs, then it is natural to think that they are correct if and only if they are true. Subjective Ethics  refers to a view that there are no absolute or constant standards of right and wrong. In  subjective ethics  there is only the duty to oneself: the duty to focus on the development of self- consciousness. ...  Subjective Ethics  is also known as  ethical  relativism or moral relativism. Ethics  is defined as a moral philosophy or code of morals practiced by a person or group of people. An  example  of  ethics  is a the code of conduct set by a business. In order for  morality  to be objective, it must be right or wrong regardless of human perceptio...

  Values   are simply the labels and categories we create to identify the motivations and desires we believe will usher us towards a good life, though in practice, values regularly conflict with one another. I value comfort and deliciousness while simultaneously valuing health and industry. Anti - Values  are values that have a predictably bad outcome. These include dominance, revenge, sadism, ideology, hardness, and exclusivity. Presumably in our primordial past, these anti-values ensured some measure of security and flourishing, but they no longer have a beneficial role in our modern communities. It’s important to note that anti-values are not synonymous with the excess or deficiency of another value. Cowardliness is a deficiency of courage. Foolhardiness is an excess of courage. Neither cowardliness nor foolhardiness designate a value that anyone strives for. They are therefore better designated as vices. The  four types of value  inc...

  Like most other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics. That is to say, happiness or well-being ( eudaimonia ) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues aretê : excellence’ are the requisite skills and dispositions needed to attain it. If Plato’s conception of happiness is elusive and his support for a morality of happiness seems somewhat subdued, there are several reasons. First, he nowhere defines the concept or makes it the direct target of investigation, but introduces it in an oblique way in the pursuit of other questions. Second, the treatment of the human good varies in the different dialogues, so that readers find themselves confronted with the problem of what to make of the discrepancies in different works. This touches on a fundamental problem with Plato’s work – namely whether to follow a ‘unitarian’, ‘revisionist’, or ‘developmentalist’ approach to Plato’s writings. Whereas unitarians regard the d...

  Most virtue ethics theories take their inspiration from  Aristotle  who declared that a virtuous person is someone who has ideal character traits. These traits derive from natural internal tendencies, but need to be nurtured; however, once established, they will become stable. For example,  a virtuous person is someone who is kind across many situations over a lifetime because that is her character and not because she wants to maximize utility or gain favors or simply do her duty. Unlike  deontological  and  consequentialist  theories, theories of virtue ethics do not aim primarily to identify universal principles that can be applied in any moral situation. Since its revival in the twentieth century, virtue ethics has been developed in three main directions: Eudaimonism, agent-based theories, and the ethics of care. Eudaimonism bases virtues in human flourishing, where flourishing is equated with performing one’s distinctive function well. ...