Student Professor English 305 6 November 2009 I Say No To Hate Crime Laws Hate crimes are an irrational, ignorant and cowardly expression of desperation. A person who commits a hate crime is desperate to feel better, superior and in control. That being said, there should not be special laws and mandatory sentences for people who commit these heinous acts of violence because they do not accomplish the goals of eradicating or deterring bigotry. If we, as a society, put special laws and punishments into our legal system, we are unequivocally saying that the motive of these acts is more important than the intent or outcome of these crimes. I do not believe this is true nor do I feel that this is the position of the majority of people in
A large, complex society like ours without laws and without a system of criminal justice would have no individual rights, public order, crime, and no basis for a society. I would not want to live in such society because it would not be a safe place to live and would feel like society is corrupt. Having no criminal justice system in this society would hinder itself from protecting the people from crime which law enforcement in a normal society would help protect and prevent. There would be no court system to prosecute and sentence those who commit crime, and there would be no corrections to imprison those who where accused of doing a crime. A society without laws would be a corrupt chaotic society that would put people in a state of crisis because people would be murdered for possessions they own, fundamental beliefs of how people preserve what’s right from wrong in a society would not be the same as a normal society, and a balance between individual rights and public order would not be a basis part of a society.
It is a known cultural difference that men usually dominate the world. There are many times when women are abused that they do not file charges against their assailants. Some of the governing assumptions that strengthen the mainstream explanation of the intimate abuse that many women face are as follows: First, men batter women because they are privileged, physically, financially, and socially; it is under the assumption in this belief that we need not understand the violence behind men’s violence beyond that point of the patriarchal explanation. Second, women stay in abusive relationships because of patriarchy. Third, the criminal justice system is sexist.
Hence, it is wrong to say that one should obey just laws and disobey unjust laws. It is difficult to identify just and unjust laws. Many people have tried to define them. For example, Martin Luther King said that a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority. While as per Thoreau, policies of the State should never be put above the individual's needs.
This essay will be in an affirmative position in regard to Albert Einstein’s quote “nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced”. This quote means what’s the point in making a law when you can’t make sure that it’s enforced and upheld. Also it is saying that if the law isn’t respected. One of the reasons laws are put in place are to maintain a civil society. Therefore if laws are not respected we will lose a civil society and everything will turn to chaos.
Abusing the privilege of having high authority is one power dynamic people use. Most leaders use this power dynamic, because they believe the law is in their hands and they are above it. This is catastrophically wrong, because society needs to have trust in authority, but if they cannot have that trust, then the system will have no use for anything. The essays “Talking Back, by Bell Hooks; Resistance to Civil Government, by Henry David Thoreau; and Aint I a Woman, by Sojourner Truth” all address the troubles such power dynamics like the abuse of authority -had an impact on their lives. The tyranny civilians felt was surreal.
Therefore, the general will of the people requires that laws be amended to reflect morality and justice. Only through civil disobedience can this be achieved; blindly obeying unjust laws will only enforce unjustified public opinion. Although some argue that the general will of the people can be accurately portrayed by a government entity without
Also reproductive cloning is not right because it is dangerous to society. In article remarks of President Barack Obama “It is dangerous, profoundly wrong and has no place in our society or any society”. (9) There is always failures and can harm other’s lives. So it is not necessary for reproductive cloning in our society. We would be endangering our society, this does not need to be
Sexual Harassment among Women in the Canadian Forces Combat Arms Christian Eddy SOCY 462 Sexual harassment against women in the workplace has long been documented as a pervasive problem. Many studies have demonstrated that women in workplaces where the workforce is primarily male, have greater problems with sexual harassment than women who work in a place where the workforce is female-dominate. The results of these studies also stand true within military organizations, and the Canadian Forces Combat Arms is no exception. With the military being a male-dominated institution, sexual harassment within the military continues to be a problem. A major problem with sexual harassment, however, is that victims don’t always report it for various reasons which we will discuss later in this review.
Though there still exists many restrictions on what one can depict on TV and in movies, many citizens argue that we need more regulations on what can and can not be seen in the theater or one's living room. However, these loosing of the bonds on television and cinema is, in actuality, a liberation of creative freedom that artists in America rightly deserve. That is not to say that sex and violence should always be considered creative expression, but in the battle to protect our morals, it is morally wrong to chain down our nation's artists with restrictions that hold back their ability to channel their creative vision and hold the mirror up to society and life. The primary purpose of the visual arts is to reflect, in one medium or another, our history as a society and the nature of our existence as human beings. This is the duty of filmmakers.