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…I think that the social theorist, Jean Rousseau, would have been the strongest supporter of equal rights. In the “The Social Contract," wrote that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the pernicious influence of human society and institutions…

…the democratic point of view so this must also mean that we have our own natural rights including the right to exist and the rights to make our own choices and such. Step seven last but not least human rights I would believe to include the democratic point of view…

…being? Humans don't have the right to manipulate the gene pool. That's God's job. The psychological effects of cloning are less obvious, but none the less, very plausible. In addition to physical harms, there are worries about the psychological effects…

…theories on human rights and the meaning of political power. For example, John states, "If government fails to fulfill the end for which it was established…. the people have the right to dissolve that government." Locke believed that since the people…

…In our Consititution, citizens have many righhts, but do we have the right to think? In the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence adn Robert Lee, a man is on trial for teaching his students about the theory of evolution. Drummond, the lawyer…

…'] life it begins to acquire human characteristics." Following this, it is agreed upon that every person has a right to life and because the fetus is operationally defined as a person from the moment of conception (for the sake of this argument anyways…

…of cloning a human, headless or not, with the intent to harvest his/her organs is a definite violation of human rights. Although it would be hard for me to face someone who could survive through a transplant and is incredibly far down the waiting list…

…and ultimate right and wrong exist. The choices we make are made based on a universal code of right and wrong. With our free will and our own understanding of right and wrong, we as humans are therefore responsible for our own actions. Of the two assumptions…

…The Catholic Encyclopedia defines morality as “human conduct in so far as it is freely subordinated to the ideal of what is right and fitting.” On the other hand, one definition that Encarta Encyclopedia gives for morality is “good or right, when judged…

…Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) greatly disagreed on many key issues of their day; issues such as human nature, political authority, and the right of people to rebel. Hobbes studied before the Enlightenment, whereas that influenced…