How did the third contemporary issue effect your principles? What more have you found that you need to reasonably respond to these moral issues beyond a set of principles? Are their other skills or knowledge that will make you a more effective ethical being? What are they?

The death penalty.  This issue did effect my principals. one of them are treat others how you would like to be treated. the death penalty, to me, feels like a bit of a contradiction. person A killed person B so person C kills Person A? It doesn't make any sense. do not get me wrong of course murders deserve a punishment. it just isn't right to kill them. 

For me to be able to respond reasonably to these issues, I needed to read the information on them. I also needed to keep an open mind. My Principle are pretty simple. So other than the death penalty the issues really didn't affect my them. To answer all the blogs I needed to go beyond my Principles, I need to find out what I thought was morally right or morally wrong. 


I do not think that there are skills that make you any more ethical. Knowledge however is important. I have found out with the help of this class that I need to be educated on any subject before I can decide whether it is morally right or not. 


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blog number 5

Blog 5 - How did the second contemporary issue effect your principles? Are you better able to see areas where your principles need adjusting? What adjustments need to be made? Which philosopher's position was least consistent with your own principles and why?
Abortion. 

well i suppose that it did effect my principles. for example "do on to other as you want done on to you" tell someone that they can not have an abortion is wrong. you are telling them how to live their life. you are taking away there freedom and i would not want that! in this case i do not think that my principales need adjusting. i would never tell a woman that abortion was wrong, no let me rephrase that i would never tell a woman abortion was wrong in the beginning of the pregnancy. however a late term abortion is murder, any which way you look at it. if that baby was taken out it could potentially live on its own. that is when you have to draw the line between abortion and murder.  the philosopher i agree the least with would be Noonan. one because he is a man, and for him to say that he thinks it shouldn't be allowed AT ALL is ridicules. he is a man and will never have to go through that situation. also there are things that i do not agree with with warren to but i do not agree with any thing Noonan says. 

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Blog number 4

human cloning, I can not even take it seriously so in affect if did not effect on my principles. It did not change my principles 


which i stated were :Do not steal, get an education, respect your elders, don't do to other what you wouldn't want done to 


you, and have a good work ethic none of these are principles that relate to anyone else, i feel as though people should live 
by their own morals. whether they be bad or good. or in human cloning case crazy. no my principles were not helpful for me when i was working on whether i agreed with this or not. I suppose this is because i do not think that this is an issue or morally wrong or not, it is just weird and i do not accept it. I have to agree more with Tooley on this issue. 






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blog #3

Blog 3 - What Social / Moral Principles do you find compelling and why? How do these principles fit with the personal principles you identified in Blog 2? Do they conflict at all? Do you think you can live according to both? How will you go about doing so? i.e. Prioritize them? Adopt specific ones for specific contexts?

when i read through locke and marx i find that both offer something good to live by. i am not sure if i am more compelled to either one. Locke wants everyone to be equal. i think equality is very important. i also think that if you worked for what you had who is to say it is not fair for you to have it. my views were simple treat others how you would want to be treated. when you look at both of these principles i do not believe that either goes against that. the easiest way for me to live according to my own morals and these is to just adopt certain ones from myself, locke, and marx. 


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Blog #2

My personal principals when I entered this class were pretty basic. Do not steal, get an education, respect your elders, don’t do to other what you wouldn't want done to you, and have a good work ethic. My mother and father taught my morals to me. I do not think I really have any of my own morals; I have just adopted my parents. The one thing that I did come up with by different college classes and myself is that I am not a spiritual person. I have finally come to terms that I no longer believe that there is a "god." my mother can not accept this from me so she makes me go to church on Sundays and try to find my way. Little does she know that I am finding my way and I do not need an invisible being to guide me. With most of my morals our readings really did not have an affect except the god thing. I believe they are helping me with my journey, showing me that there are other religions. Helping me realize that it isn't wrong of me to believe something else.        




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