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Decriminalizing Prostitution
... States rests on three assumptions: prostitution is linked to
organized crime, prostitution leads to violence, and prostitution is the
cause of an increase in sexually transmitted diseases.
Organized crime is “any group having a corporate structure whose
primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities, often
surviving on fear and corruption,” (“Interpool” by Fenton Bresler, page 1).
A person engaging in organized crime has the sole purpose of generating
profits from his/her victims. His crime is consciously and deliberately
thought out in order to make earnings as quickly as possible. The United
States Officials believe that the easiest form of ...
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The Pros & Cons Of The Death Penalty
... Pros and Cons.
The Pros:
There are many reasons why the Death Penalty should be used again.
There is too much money going into holding killers, rapists and psychos. It
cost more to hold one inmate one years than to put him through Harvard Law
School. These people knew what they were doing when they did the crime, give
them consequences. There is also the "eye for an eye" argument. Make them feel
what their victims felt. The punishment for murder right now is three square
meals a day, a roof over their heads, a bed to sleep in, very often activities
to do. That include Tennis, Weightlifting, or even Prostitutes. Lets change
the penalty for murder fro ...
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Law And Morality
... woman who is a doctor. They all have been there for fifteen days and
they must remain there for an additional fifteen days before they can be rescued.
The problem is that although there are five of them in the bunker, there is only
enough food for four people to survive for the remaining fifteen days. Rationing
the food will not be of any use, because all will die with such a plan. The only
way for most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to
die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
person be carried out?" These are all very difficult ...
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Legalization Of Drugs
... curing this seemingly unbeatable disease.
How does legalizing one of the most deadly substances known to man actually eliminate it? It sounds ironical, but in fact, it makes perfect sense. First, by making drugs legal, you eliminate all source of profit made by dealers in illegal trading. Destroying that aspect of society will reduce the amount of drug related crime. Then that money will be used to set up treatment centers and rehabilitation clinics across America to help the already addicts. Keep in mind, is not the only answer, yet is a definitive step in the right direction. Education is the key to battling drug abuse, but that is a different topic. Nullifyin ...
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Capital Punishment: The Legal Punishment Of A Criminal
... to them than just
excellent or penalization. These now strictly signify, death.
Capital punishment has been a form of “disciplining” since 1750
B.C., when it was part of the code of Hammarabi. The bible itself, also
prescribes death as a penalty for any of thirty crimes committed. The
crimes ranged from any between murder and fornication. In the 18th
century more than two hundred capital crimes were recognized, and as a
result over one thousand people a year were faced with the sentence of
death.
Now at modern time, the death penalty, has been rekindled.
Although, it is not as barbaric as it was. Now the law only
allows itself the use certain types of “d ...
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The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
... people under 21 to obtain alcohol. The opposition also believes
that the laws against underage consumption of alcoholic beverages will dissuade
young people from drinking alcohol.
The laws that prohibit merchants from selling alcohol to persons under
21 are hard to enforce. Even if they are enforced by the authorities, the
establishment that breaks that law is rarely punished severely. For example, in
Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted raids of 5-10 different
establishments in 1993 that had liquor licenses and reportedly to sell alcoholic
beverages to minors. It was proven that each business in question had indeed
been guilty of the charges. What w ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
... or physically
addicting drug. One can use mild cannabis preparations such as marijuana
in small amounts for years without physical or mental deterioration.
Marijuana serves to diminish inhibitions and acts as an euphoriant. Only
once in a while will it produce actual hallucinations. More potent
preparations of cannabis such as hashish can induce
psychedelic experiences identical to those observed after ingestion of
potent hallucinogens such as LSD.
Some who smoke marijuana feel no effects; others feel relaxed and
sociable, tend to laugh a great deal, and have a profound loss of the sense
of time. Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuan ...
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Failure Of Gun Control Laws
... control efforts, we must
look at the history of our country, and the role firearms have played in it.
The second amendment to the Constitution of the United States makes firearm
ownership legal in this country. There were good reasons for this freedom,
reasons which persist today. Firearms in the new world were used initially
for hunting, and occasionally for self-defense. However, when the colonists
felt that the burden of British oppression was too much for them to bear,
they picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against
the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the greatest
military force in the world at that time. The 1 ...
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Drug Abuse: People Abused Vs. Drugs Abused
... of a common term. In order to ease such
recognition let's make a shift in terms and distinguish between them.
A person voluntarily commits to use any prohibited by law drug.
Despite the consequences of such action, the person continues using it.
Eventually, some type of physical or mental harm occurs within that
person's body, thus, the occurrence of changes in health is the result of
one's free choice. Any of the above stages can be easily applied into
mother-child scenario.
If a mother becomes, at some point, totally drug addicted, she can
no longer control her actions, psychological stage of mind, etc. She can
no longer be in a position of making the ri ...
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Marijuana: The Untold Story
... which some call a ‘high’. Though this plant may be the to blame for millions of people for getting high and having fun, should it really be blacklisted from the society? Alcohol has continues to be used greatly, giving similar but not as good effects as marijuana, however with less other advantages.
In 1942 the American government asked farmers to grow marijuana in a 14-minute propaganda piece entitled Hemp for Victory. The campaign was born because their main hemp suppliers The Philippine and East India were taken over by Japan. The military had many uses for hemp such as; parachutes, uniforms, and tents. The fabric canvas’s name was derived from cannabis, th ...
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