999 Search Results for Is It Always Wrong To Lie
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1. The Ethics of Deception:
Explore the moral implications of lying in various contexts, from personal relationships to professional environments, analyzing whether there are ethical justifications fo Continue Reading...
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1. The Ethical Implications of Lying in Different Cultures and Societies:
This essay would explore the role of lying within the sociocultural context, examining the perceived morality of lying in various Continue Reading...
lying always wrong?
While the concept of lying appears simple at first, upon consideration one is able to imagine any number of situations in which lying would not appear to always be wrong, thus creating something of a quandary for anyone attempti Continue Reading...
Presenting natives as a 'doomed' race is comforting: "Feeling good is a human need, but it imposes a burden that history cannot bear without becoming simple-minded. Casting Indian history as a tragedy because Native Americans could not or would not Continue Reading...
Lies My Teacher Told Me stresses how students can repeat the same social studies class three times and still be ignorant of American history. Today, U.S. young adults leave most history courses with the false belief that the subject is only a bunch o Continue Reading...
There are no shades of gray and there aren't times when something is right and something is wrong. Something that is right is always right and vice versa for wrong. That means that killing people is always wrong, no matter what the situation is. The Continue Reading...
fallacies and it is important to detect fallacious arguments and then form decisions. Below is an analysis of three such fallacies which have been described and examples are described to show why it is important to detect them.
FALLACIES
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"These gangs will go anywhere there is money to be made and there is just no stopping the supply of girls so the problem will grow." Trafficking gangs kidnap or lure women from Eastern Europe with promises of work as models or glamorous escorts. The Continue Reading...
Patience is required, and that is also difficult for many people.
By building well-researched insight into a business, a leader can come up with tactics that will help that business. From that point, the leader can also come up with strategies that Continue Reading...
Lies
Paul Ekman is the Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Francisco.
This book distills 15 years of scientific study of nonverbal communication and the clues to deception. Mr. Ekman, a pioneer in emotions research and nonverba Continue Reading...
Nietzsche (1873) argued that truth and falsity were not actually states of reality in nature but only exist as a function of the interpretation that human beings assign to them in communication and that for animals without human intellectual communi Continue Reading...
Well, once I took my older brother's baseball mitt to school, because I knew he wouldn't miss it. But it's really not fair that he won't let me use it. Mom says we're supposed to share each other's stuff.
Let's say there are two children. One boy b Continue Reading...
Powell points to the fact that "in Georgia, for example, the time between the date of the murder and the murderer's execution (if it occurs) averages close to I0 years 25 Although the average lapsed time in Georgia may be the highest, the same situa Continue Reading...
According to utilitarian ethical theory, a lie would be very moral indeed if it increased someone's happiness without creating detriment to anyone -- telling a child that their unintelligible crayon markings is a great picture of a house, for instan Continue Reading...
Business Consultant
It is a basic maxim of good business practice that an organization must keep pace with the needs of its customers, and in fact, constantly strive to anticipate the needs of its customers. To achieve this, it is important that a c Continue Reading...
The anger that eventually and inevitably spills out is far more hurtful than any truth I could have told before, and the damage I have done to my self-esteem is too great. My opinions, right or wrong, are part of who I am.
Honesty does not mean tac Continue Reading...
I find this kind of manipulation reprehensible and I believe the American people deserve the truth. Although they may have been acting in the best of intentions, it would seem that history will prove this administration wrong.
Commission on the Int Continue Reading...
An American who spent sometime in Germany recounted his experience [Will Higher Gasoline Prices Inspire Lifestyle Changes, 2001] of energy prices in that country, "When I lived in Germany, the price of gasoline went from the equivalent of $2.50 per Continue Reading...
Currently the DSM-IV refers to both these as antisocial personality disorder with the following criteria:
A. Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 as indicated by at least three of the foll Continue Reading...
Culturally, the Bush administration failed miserably at understanding what needed to be done within the Iraqi cultures. For example, Diamond notes that the U.S. tried to build security through an Iraqi police for4ce but that effort "withered from h Continue Reading...
AFRICA'S PETROLEUM AND CHINA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
How Africa's Petroleum Supply Is Important to China's Economic Growth and Development
While China continues to grow, its oil demand is poised to grow rapidly. For China to ensure its oi Continue Reading...
Dell Computers
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Dell Computer's turnaround: Can it work?
At one point in its history, Dell Computers was considered to be a paragon of mold-breaking business innovation because of the radical way in which it challenged the accepted model of th Continue Reading...
Those favoring it argue it is unfair to have the same requirements for select minorities as for others. Those opposed believe it's unfair that the more qualified candidate loses an opportunity to a less qualified member of a preferred group.
Their Continue Reading...
telepathy and how it does or does not really exist in the world we live. There are various schools of thought discussed in this paper to highlight the concept of this term that has been there for many centuries.
The term "telepathy" was coined in 1 Continue Reading...
Rise of the Secular Turkish Republic
It was in 1923 that the Republic of Turkey appeared on the face of the globe. The Turks consider the preceding years i.e. 1919-1922 as the years of their struggle for independence. The Turkish state that was form Continue Reading...
Corrections / Police / Criminal Justice
Would I lie to a suspect to get a confession even it was legal to do so?
Legal or not, lying to get a confession creates a moral black hole for an officer. To wit, how would an officer who was otherwise a goo Continue Reading...
Accounting Ethics
The harmless or not-so-harmless lies of Bobby Glick
From a strictly utilitarian perspective, it might be that the scenario outlined in the Glick case does not seem so morally questionable. Glick, as a new and untested employee rig Continue Reading...
role of a prophet in society has often been questioned and misunderstood. Prophets are often seen as peculiar people who receive divine inspiration. The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether a prophet is always inspired. We will begin our disc Continue Reading...
On the contrary, for Kant, to live a moral life is to live a life that is lived almost completely because of obligation (Moran, Rein & Goodin 2008, p 354). Someone can still do something that is their duty, but that doesn't mean that what they Continue Reading...
Perceptions are generally based on the present, and therefore, the need to explore the past by delving into it in great detail becomes totally unnecessary. Glasser felt that even if the person exhibited bizarre and extremely strange types of behavio Continue Reading...
Hypocrite
What is a Hypocrite?
Hypocrite. It's a term synonymous with words like fraud and counterfeit, bringing forth the image of a person who is shifty and less than trustworthy. In some respects they lack morals. In others, they are simply ruth Continue Reading...
Intelligent Design
Man has always asked questions about how the world began. All cultures in the ancient world had origin myths. People looked to higher powers, or deities, or life forces, to explain what they could not understand. Researchers do no Continue Reading...
maturation process, but it comes easily only to a few. Of course there are choices that usually generate little anguish such as what to have for breakfast or which route to take when going home, but when a person is a diabetic or inclement weather m Continue Reading...
The following describes the process of Gestalt therapy:
Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological-existential therapy founded by Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940s. It teaches therapists and patients the phenomenological method of awarenes Continue Reading...
(Setting and Measuring Service Standards)
The store then appointed supervisors to ensure that all employees were following the procedures properly and even used 'mystery shoppers 'to find out if all the measures were being implemented, and the repo Continue Reading...
Iraq War and Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
The months leading up to the 2004 presidential election were filled with commentaries and speculations as to what issues most concerned voters. From a vast array of topics such as health care, employm Continue Reading...
Vaporware-Case Study
Given Microsoft's track record, it certainly appears that pre-announcement of Chicago were an attempt to thwart competition from rival products. Microsoft knows that information technology is one industry that is extremely volat Continue Reading...
Many expatriates are able to find large communities of their own nationalities far flung from their homes, and this in another significant factor in the choice of expatriates to stay away from home (United Nations, 2006).
When people of any origin Continue Reading...
emergence of social media and other sharing-based websites and portals on the World Wide Web has been to a degree that has been life-changing and society-changing in nature. For the most part, these effects have been quite good and fruitful. As with Continue Reading...