Tag: Deontology
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Are Nuclear Weapons a Necessary Evil? Part 2: An Introduction to the Applied Ethics of Nuclear Warfare
General Difficulty: A-Level, Undergraduate Series Introduction It is no exaggeration that August 6th 1945 saw one of the most horrific days in human history. At 8:15 in Hiroshima, Japan, a crew on the plane Enola Gay dropped the first-ever nuclear weapon, called ‘the Little Boy’. They watched as a whole…
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4 Reasons Why Sex Isn’t Wrong; A response to Halwani’s Article
Hello! This article is in response to Raja Halwani’s article on “Why sexual desire is objectifying – and hence morally wrong” and how we can challenge that we are objectified through sex. ~o~ Introduction Halwani wrote an article on the 9th December 2016, attempting to argue that, using Kantian Deontology,…