Philosophy for teens

This website talks about why animals should have rights. The main idea is by the philosopher Jeremy Bentam who founded teh untilinariam school. He says when making a being right we do not consider if they can reason or talk we consider if they can sufffer. For animals the answer if yes thus we should have animal rights

Please highlight relevant parts of the site.

This is a credible website because it is from stanford. 

This is a blog that shows someones opinion on why income taxation if theft. It also shows how it is not fair.

This site is about the murder of Reena Virk and the reason she was murdered. I chose a murder case to show the difference between the intentions of a murder and the intentions of a euthanasia case. I also chose it to emphasize why euthanasia should not be considered as murder. In this case, the girl was murdered because she was brown in a predominantly white society and because she was overweight. In other words, she didn't fit in. Therefore, the intentions were to harm and kill the individual.

From what I've read on this site, it's a good way to prove that euthanasia is not murder - and it can definetely help in making your point clear. However, you might want to make sure you don't accidentally start talking about racism and sexism. Other than that, it's a good argument in the making.

This is a website basically supporting the argument that animals lack the free moral judgment and basically cannot exercise any rights.

"However closely humans and lower animals resemble each other, human beings alone possess the capacity for free choice and the responsibility to act ethically." This is a quote from the site you bookmarked that I find is part of a good point and a good argument. You really chose a good site because it holds philosophical points instead of only opinions and facts. It doesn't really leave much room for argument, but you might want to watch out for your opponents saying things like, "Who's to say they don't have ratinoal thought?" It's sure to help you out in your debate, though.

Sue Rodriguez was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal and painful disease. She fought to the Supreme Court of Canada to obtain the right to commit assisted suicide, but lost twice. She ended up committing assisted suicide with the help of an anonymous physician.

This website is very credible. It also contains a lot of information. What I really like about it is the fact that it not only gives you an example to prove your point, but it also contains a lot of points to build a case for euthanasia. This website pointed some of the most interesting points for your case, which will help me refute during our debate.

I really like this website, because it gave a couple personal situations involving euthanasia, which allowed me to understand why someone might want euthanasia to be legal. The site also contains a lot of information including what the law in Canada and the U.S. was for euthanasia, and clearly explained why it is an issue. There are aspects in the text that favor euthanasia and others that explain why it should not be legal.

This is an article that has several points as to why taxation is theft. Firstly, taxation is theft because it is the use of aggression to deny another person their property.This is because it involves the use of violence in order to permanently acquire someone else's property. As we know, taxes are used in order to give certain services to citizens. However, what if these citizens do not want these services? This is why taxation is considered theft. 

I think that this is a very good website because it shows that taxation is theft because it is taking away someones property. I also like the point that shows how it uses violence and how some people do not want the services that are provided from paying taxes.

The woman that wrote the text had to watch her mother go through excruciating pain for a year because she was suffering from cancer. Although this text on euthanasia is her opinion, I find this site interesting because she speaks from experience, of course not going through euthanasia, but watching someone very close to her not get euthanasia. She would have liked her mother to get euthanasia in order for the pain to stop. That experience makes her opinion all the more understandable.

This site is credible since it's from a popular news website and it's done by professionals.

Robert Latimer committed euthanasia to his daughter Tracy. She was a 12 year old who functioned at the level of a 3 month year old. She was in constant excruciating pain, could not talk, move or feed herself. Robert ended up getting charged with 1st degree murder, and after main court cases got sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Better site than the last one but it argues, ultimately, for the other side!

Not a great site. It`s a discussion forum.

This is not the most credible site.

This site talks about the Geneva Conventions, which are international treaties between places in the world that accept them. I think this is very relevant to the topic of torture because this site basically states everything that is right and what isn't right to do.They're principles.

Omar Khadr was 15 when he go sentenced to 40 years in prison. He's originally from Toronto, and was sent to Guantanamo Bay at 15 years old. Canada refused to have Omar come to Canada to serve him with the Canadian Justic System, rather then that of the United States. Had Omar been in Canada, he would not have been sentenced for 40 years and would definitely not have been brought to Guantanamo bay, which is a prison for only the most dangerous criminals. Omar was only a teenager when he committed the crime, he most certainly does not deserve a 40 year sentence in prison.

Do you think this is an example of torture?

explanations are beautiful, elegant and true

the democratization of creativity; improving or diluting creativity and art

the humanizing force of the internet's connectivity is redefining what it means to be human

This site is credible because it is from a credible and very highly-distinguished university (Stanford University) and it was found using www.sweetsearch.com which is told to be very credible by Mrs. Bambic.

This site is credible because it has useful information which is related to science and it also has some definitions which can be useful for our debates