Virginia Woolf once said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” This is one of the many arguments behind legalizing cannibalism. If the act of eating other human beings was legalized and regulated it will solve all the problems of modern society. Cannibalism has been around since the Neolithic times. It is not currently practiced, but I think a revival of this age-old practice would benefit everyone. Cannibalism can solve world hunger. It can improve our criminal justice system. Cannibalism will also put an end to over population and spice up some of the current cooking shows. The legalization of cannibalism is what our modern world needs to turn itself around.
The common idea behind using cannibalism to end world hunger is that we can kill half the people in the world and feed them to the other half. I disagree with that. Humans can live without their pinkey fingers, appendixes, and tonsils. This amounts to more than four hundred grams of useable meat per person. If the entire world donated those body parts, we would have 2, 400, 000, 000, 000 grams of meat or 2, 400, 000 metric tons or 3, 779, 250 cows worth of meat. These figures do not include the number of people who die and who would be edible. This, combined with the other foods currently available would help feed all the hungry people of the world. By legalizing and encouraging organized cannibalism we can help hungry and malnourished people everywhere.
If cannibalism is legalized the world will be much better behaved. I do not think that the majority of criminals would commit crimes if they knew that their appendages would end up in the supermarket if they were caught. This would also apply to schools. Detentions do not work, but I think that if you break a rule you will have to give a limb to be eaten. If you are late five times, it is a toe. If you skip an English class, the punishment is a pound of flesh. The Young Offenders Act should also be altered. The punishment for young offenders would just be less than the punishment for adults. My improved correctional system would completely significantly reduce crime from our streets.
Cannibalism would provide economically viable solutions to the problems of modern society. Today there is a large homeless problem. Some have suggested feeding half the homeless to the other half.
In this essay I have outlined some of Aristotle’s views on friendship as he discussed in the Nichomachaen Ethics, books VIII and XI. I have also given my own arguments on why I do not agree with certain arguments made by Aristotle and the arguments of Kant, also in opposition of Aristotle, as well as Aristotle’s counter arguments.
Text messaging is a technology that contributes to the great decline of the English language. The English language is often butchered through the use of text messaging. In Orwell’s essay, he states “An effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form” (446). Main stream society is too lazy to correct any grammar and punctuation in a text message, leading to the assumption that it is not important, after all it is only a text message. Thus, this shows the English language is in decline, when society is to lazy to take a few extra second to correct spelling and punctuation errors . One would not be able to write the same way in an academic essay as they would in a text message. If one would do so, that student would receive an F. No English teacher, or for that matter any teacher, would be thrilled nor impressed reading an essay filled with these common texting erors.
Aristotle’s philosophical theory for a person’s happiness includes friendship. In order for a person to achieve the greatest amount of happiness and well-being, one must have friendships. He states that even people who hold wealth and power seek friends, “nobody will choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things” (Aristotle 258). Friendships according to Aristotle, are also the bond the hold communities together and have a higher importance than justice, since friendship is the primary object. They are three different types of friendships in which all share the equal amount of qualities, and a type of affection, however, only one is long lasting. The three types of friendships he describes are, ground of utility, friendships
It's taking over our lives. We can do it almost anywhere. What is it? It's texting! Texting is a reliable, easy and convenient form of communication that is most commonly used by, but not limited to millenials and those in the workforce. Many people use it as a way to express themselves as well. In Michaela Cullington’s article, “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she targets two different attitudes in relation to texting. Cullington explains that there is often an assumption that students who use abbreviations when they text, will bring those same abbreviations over to their formal writing pieces. Cullington then adds that the other attitude in relation to writing skills and texting insists that texting is harming student’s writing capabilities. Because of her research as well as experiments done by other colleagues of hers, it shows that
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics discusses virtue as a disposition to act in a manner that is a mean between excess and deficiency. In the following, friendship will be shown to be a virtue by explaining the different kinds of friendship. Beginning by understanding what a virtue is for Aristotle will show that friendship is a desirable state of character and help prove it is a virtue. By contemplating the value of friendship and it’s importance to the moral good of human action, the paper will show that friendship is a virtue. Reflecting upon these topics will finally point to the fact that friendship is a virtue.
Aristotle defines three different types of friendships as usefulness, pleasure, and the complete friendship. These friendships require that both parties are aware, wish goodwill to one another, and there is mutual loving for each other. The first type of friendship is a friendship based on being useful or providing a benefit that brings good to both parties. For example, a friend invited to dinner finds out the host enjoys various varieties of red and white wine. Seeking to establish a friendship the guest sends a gift of wine as a “thank you” for the host’s hospitality. The host is surprised and impressed by the gift of wine and feels he or she must invite him over more often for dinner because of his giving and
The legislature in the United States nor Europe introduces a law against cannibalism. However, the consumption of human flesh violates primary laws as murder or desecration of corpses (Legal Information Institute, n.d.). Considering the criminal case of the cannibal of Rotenburg as an example on how the justice sentenced his act of cannibalism. The then 40 year old was charged with murder in the act of cannibalism. In 2001, Armin Meiwes placed an advertisement in the internet, which requested a man who was willing to get eaten. Bernd Brandes, an engineer, replied to the cannibal’s ad. Shortly afterwards the men met, Bernd took in sleeping tablets and alcohol to endure the coming agonies. Meiwes killed his victim, then chopped
Aristotle divides friendship into three segments, and the divisions are based on the kind of good each provides. As a whole, friendship consists of a mutual feeling of goodwill between two people and involves equal exchanges between one another. The first kind of friendship is known as utilitarian and is mostly associated with older people. In this form, both people
For Aristotle there are three main qualities that defines if someone qualifies as a friend: Those types called Nicomachean Ethics and focuses on the three kinds of friendship one can have.The are pleasantness - Friendship between the young is thought to be grounded on pleasure, because the lives of the young are regulated by their feelings, and their chief interest is in their own pleasure and the opportunity of the moment. , excel-lence - Only the friendship of those who are good, and are similar in their goodness, is perfect. and usefulness . As from him point of view friends in this theory love each other for their usefulness “ not in his own right, but insofar as they gain some good for themselves from him” (Aristotle, 121 ) .
As previously mentioned, Aristotle has identified three forms of friendships. The first is friendship built on utility. This type of friendship is based on whether it is beneficially satisfying for both parties. For example, if there is no one familiar in a person’s new class, one will try to form a friendship to receive class notes when they miss. Aristotle demonstrates this when
A topic that has been raved about in recent years is how texting is affecting the English language, or particularly how texting is killing the English language. Just like any other argument, there are two perspectives to this story, we’ll divide these perspectives into two different categories: linguistic and non-linguistic. The non-linguistic view of the effects of texting is relatively negative. Some say that texting is creating a very lazy generation, others say that it will eventually take over what we now know as grammatically correct, even infamous broadcaster John Humphrys believes that texting is “pillaging our punctuation, savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.” Still others, in the more linguistic point-of-view, say that texting is not apt for language decline at all, but rather the start of a very small language evolution – an evolution that is actually having a good effect on the language and the texters themselves.
Is it morally permissible to eat meat? Much argument has arisen in the current society on whether it is morally permissible to eat meat. Many virtuous fruitarians and the other meat eating societies have been arguing about the ethics of eating meat (which results from killing animals). The important part of the dispute is based on the animal welfare, nutrition value from meat, convenience, and affordability of meat-based foods compared to vegetable-based foods and other factors like environmental moral code, culture, and religion. All these points are important in justifying whether humans are morally right when choosing to eat meat. This paper will argue that it is morally impermissible to eat meat by focusing on the treatment of animals, the environmental argument, animal rights, pain, morals, religion, and the law.
Aristotle evidently states that friendship is a virtue and is necessary for our existence. It is not possible to live without friends nor would we want to (Pakaluk, 30). Aristotle talks about three different kinds of friendship which are based on utility, pleasure, and goodness. Friendships that are based on utility are likely to fade away fast because they are out to achieve something good for themselves through the other person and once that is accomplished or taken away then friendship is lost (Pakaluk, 32). Friendships based on pleasure work comparable to the ones based on utility. Once the pleasure is gone or no longer needed the friendship could expire. Lastly, those who love for goodness, reflect one another and want the same greatness for each other. Friendships that are genuine and true are based on this quality and usually have a long lasting presence.
Cell phones of this time have a vast amount of technology that goes with them. There is auto correct for those of us using smart phones and spell check to allow people that want to type out everything in whole to revise and edit the words in which they have intended to use. Spell check personally helps me to finish the words that I have a hunch on how to spell words, but I’m not entirely sure, and I am not sure, call it laziness it’s just easier. I do not believe that any of the words used by John Sutherland of University College London, in the article to describe the new era of texting are correct. According to Sutherland writing in his paper in 2002, it is "bleak, bald, sad shorthand. Drab shrink talk. Linguistically it 's all pig 's ear. It masks dyslexia, poor spelling and mental laziness. Texting is penmanship for
...ming I will be willing to contribute in any way that I can, and becoming a vegetarian will help the environment a great deal. Becoming a vegetarian can also lead to becoming a healthier person and living a healthy lifestyle. And lastly, the way animals are killed and treated in factory farms are unethical and they should not be treated the way they are just to create a meal for the next person.Consider that the animal you are eating was a vegetarian and the meat contains all the minerals and vitamins of the plant foods it ate when you eat it. Along with fats yourbody needs in substantial amounts to stay healthy.....more on the fats later. Meat is as close to a complete meal as you can get because of this.