You wouldn't really look for much ethics when it comes to most businesses. I think this is because no matter what type of business you are, everyone is technically in the "same" business, making money. Which means that most people would do anything necessary to get money, lie, cheat and even steal. When one's money is at stake, anything goes. 9 out of 10 times it is usually all about the profit.

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I feel that by going to school students should be able to pick up the basic morals, like the golden rule, do unto others as you would like to be done onto you. The teachers shouldn't go into too much depth, because their is a fine line between morals and personal belifes, which is what they might start putting on their students.

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I don't personally think that jedism can be called a religion. It sounds more like a lifestyle than a religion, which are too different things. A religion dictates your lifestyle, its an influence. While your lifestyle is how you have chosen to live, its something that you have control over. A religion is something that has been followed for years, you can't alter it, because then it really woudn't be the religion anymore. With your lifestyle you are free to do as you please.  

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Torturing someone soley to gain information is not very practical. When you are hurting someone very badly and they know that the only way the pain will stop is if you give them information, you will usually get answers. Now notice how i didn't say, correct answers. This is why torturing people in exchange for information is useless. Not everyone that talks, knows what they are talking about, and the people that don't either really don't know or are willing to take their information to the grave. Basically you can't really rely on torture, so people should stop doing it.

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over the course of the year I have found blogging to be both soothing and stressful. I find it soothing because I get to write down my thoughts and feelings on the controversy topics we talk about in class. Sometimes I find it to be stressful because I don't always have an opinion and then I have to make myself have something to say in order to meet the deadline, like now... so I am done.

Bye!

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I am sure that everyone can agree that Healthcare is important, because life is important. For years healthcare has always been an important topic in the USA, the main question, "should America adopt a Universal healthcare policy?" Personally I feel that America should, but nothing too expensive that would raise taxes too much. Everyone should still hold on to their "private" insurance polocies as long as they can still afford it. But the adults that do not have acess to it should get a simple healthcare plan that will allow them to stay healhty. By simple I mean, medical and dental for regular check ups and enough money to cover medical procedures that are of the up most importance, for example radiation treatment for cancer. As for children 0- 21 years, should be covered head-to-toe. Meaning that they should be awarded acess to any type of medical treatment they require. This is important because kids need the most medical attention while they are growing, to make sure they are developing normally and also kids get hurt often. Children should not have to suffer because their parents cannot afford good healthcare. By the age of 21 they should be able to take care of themselves. Lastly, the "head-to-toe" coverage should re-appear during old age, 58 and up. This is another sensitive part of a persons life when it comes to their health.

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War though ugly and tragic, is necessary. It may be hard for some people to grasp the fact that in most cases, peace can only come from war. For example America has been fighting a war in the middle east for years now, for peace in the middle east. It started as revenge but it grew into fighting for both USA and  for the people in the middle east that coudn't fight back. This is the only kind of war that I would advocate for, wars for power and money should not be supported. If someone wants power and money innocent soldiers should not have to die.

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The question: Should we take care of the environment even though it "hurts" us?

My answer: no

I was really surprised to find that about half my classmates felt the opposite way. I know that The environment is important, but my question is, "who will take care of the environment when we are dead?"  We should only take care of their environment as long as it continues to benefit human life, as it currently does now. I am all for going green because going green will benefit the Earth, which will then benefit society in the future. If human beings will not benefit from helping the environment then why do anything at all, it is plain Darwinism 101, survival of the fittest.

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I find it very interesting how sikhs approach making their woman feel equal. Sikhism in my opinion is a mirror affect of Hinduism. It may look and act the same, but it is has a different idea. Sikhs are an alternative to Hinuism, they pick out what they don't like and change it to what they would approve of. For example I like how they do not want their women to cover up their face. They feel that by making their women cover up they are degrading them. They do not belive that the women should have to cover up because some men can not handle it. They feel that if that is the case then the men should cover their eyes.But Sikh women are still supposed to be modest and respectable, the only difference is that they are treated as equals to their husband.  If I had to chose between being a Sikh or a Hindu, I would definantly be a Sikh, the women have more freedom to be women. To learn more about Sikh women you can watch "Bend it Like Beckham", an entertaing movie about a Sikh girl. I found it very informational as well as entertaing, I hope you watch it over and over like i did.

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I strongly feel that animals do not have souls. I think that God reserved souls soley for human beings. Having a soul means that you have a moral compass, whether you choose to follow it or not. A soul is something that is impacted by emotions and actions. Animals are not capable of having deep emotional moral decisions, they barely understand what goes on in the world around them. Even the animals that are trained to do things still cannot know what it truly means to make moral decisions, because they are trained. They cannot seriously think for themselves.

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I think that the main reason why Americans are so attracted to the Buddhist life style is beacuase of the simplicity. Being a Buddhist is all about being peacful and spiritual. In a capitalist culture were people are constantly struggling to be rich and be number one, it is nice to have a way to relax. Buddhism is a good religion for people who are more spiritual than religous, it does not have a lot of rules and regulations to follow and it is easy to convert, which is something that Americans value, quick and unstressful, no strings attached.

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An atheist is a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. (Dictionary.com) Which is why people look down at atheists in America. America was built on religious values, "...one nation under God..." This is in America's pledge of allegiance. So it basically says that a good American believes that we are a nation made possible by God, we all belive that there is a God, which works for most religions. But athiest belives that there is no type of God, at all. Which is where the problem starts. Most people in America like something to attribute thier their success and carry their troubles to. For a lot of people, including me, find it hard to belive that athiest have no one and nothing to belive in. I don't know how people can live without no such hope, nothing to look forward to in their after life, nothing that would want you to be a better person...

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Religion is something that has always been seperated when it came to  public broadcasting. For example we have rock stations and then christian rock, and this is mostly because people do not want to be put out of their comfort zones. Which is why people listen to their favorite stations and watch thier favorite channels. They know what to expect. Which is why a lot of people got upset about the religious broadcasting during one of the most veiwed shows in America, The Superbowl. During the superbowl two controversial commercials were aired. One was about a football player having, John 3:16 (a bible verse), written across his cheek bones. I feel that this commercial was more about awareness than, anything. The other commercial was about being pro-life, stopping abortions. It aslo featured Tim Tebow an openly religious christian NFL player. I understand why this commercial would get controversy, as oppose to the first one. Abortion has always been a sensitive topic and people may have felt that it was innapropriate for public TV. Everyone has acess to the channel, it is not only on a cable network. Personally, I have no problems with the commercials being aired. This is America, we have freedom of the press, right? But when people try to use it, everyone is outraged! This is America, a nation of diversity, get used to it!

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An orthodox jew A.K.A a teccher in my school A.K.A Mrs. Urszuy came to our class to talk to us about being an orthodox jew. She really opened my eyes up about judaism. The one thing that she talked about that really interested me was about how she chose to be an orthodox jew. The difference between an orthodox jew and a regular jew is a lot (in my eyes). A regular jew, has simpler rules to follow,especially for the woman. As an orthodox jew you have to be more modest and committed to your religion, were as a normal jew you can pretty much interprete things in you own way, live a more "relaxed" life.

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Have you ever been called selfish? It stings doesn't it. I Bet you would prefer the term self

 interested. I believe that we are "wired' to be selfish, as a baby we are selfish. When we

 are first born, we cry all the time. You expect your caregievers to drop everything they

 are doing to change you, feed you, and or hold you. It is not our fault that we like to take

 care of ourselves first. Like Darwin said, only the strongest survive so why not make

 yourself as strong as possible.

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Today a christian pastor came into our classroom to enlighten us on christanity. I really

 like the way he made no judgements on other religions. when we asked about if he felt

 that other religions were wrong, he said he didn't want to judge others, that it wasn't his

 place. The speaker was very nice and understanding, but I feel that he was too nice and

 understanding. He never really answered our questions, pretty much beat around the

 bush and came back to the begining, and never gave us a straight answer. I would have

 liked him to give us some kind of direction, some "judgement". I appreciated his respect

 but I still never got my answer the question, that I have been asking for years. I remeber

 a time in my church (Grace Community Church) that we were doing a Q&A session. It

 was a month long lesson consisted of the church sending in their questions about our

 faith via, text and e-mail. The pastor would then base his sermon off of our questions, I

 texted my question and I never got a response... "Do you belive that there is more than

 one path to God?" if not then, "How can God send people to hell, because they are

 simply doing what Jesus's desciples are doing, (they don't know any different)?

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Does America follow a christian Philosophy?... Well it depends on how you would define Christian Philosophy. When I think about chrisitans I think about helping others and reaching out to the people in need. If that is how you define a christian philosophy, then absolutely count America in. When people, even other countries need our help, we give it to them (whether they ask for it or not). So in the sense of "loving your brother" and helping eachother, then yes. The religious aspect of chrisitanity is where America falls short, though we are giving and kind, we are still a secularlistic Country, we love the money, we are capitalist. Also we don't enbody the real religious aspect of christianity, because the country is mixed with so many other religions. Though our background is Chrisitian and that is how the nation was raised, we can no longer affiliate the whole country with that one religion, it wouldn't be fair to the other religions. Like I said we care about the people living in this country.

                            In God We Trust

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