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sara tsapekis

Suicide vs. Euthanasia - 3 views

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  • sara tsapekis on 08 Dec 10
     
    This site states the differences as well as the similarities between suicide and euthanasia. I think it's a good site because it breaks down euthanasia into all the possible categories (voluntary euthanasia, in-voluntary euthanasia, non-voluntary euthanasia) and goes into detail about each one. They are interrelated because in a euthanasia case, the patient could be depressed and that would be the reason for wanting euthanasia to be performed. Suicide becomes a choice for those who are depressed as well.
  • michelle tappert on 08 Dec 10
     
    this site is very useful for both sides of the argument about whether euthanasia is right or wrong. This site allows us to see and understand the difference between different kinds of euthanasia, because they are not all the same. It talks about depression and how suicide is a choice for them, but it should stay a personal choice. Euthanasia is sometimes not even chosen by the person for whom it is brought up. Very good site, it really helps see what euthanasia and suicide are all about.
Mason Brenhouse

Taxation is Theft Because it's Involuntary and Permanently Denies People their Property... - 1 views

georgedonnelly.com/...taxation-is-theft

taxation theft is philosophy

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  • Taxation is theft because it is the use of aggression to deny another person their property. It doesn’t matter what their property is to be used for or what complicated arguments are made to justify it. Taxation is involuntary and it results in a person’s property being permanently taken. This is all that is necessary for our thesis to be proven.
  • Yet others will claim that taxes are payment for those services government provides. What if one doesn’t want those services? What if they are substandard? There are no answers to these questions because these alleged services are provided involuntarily. You can hardly call that a voluntary arrangement.
  • Taxation is theft because it involves a first use of violence in order to permanently acquire someone else’s property. State apologists may make excuses or wild conjecture in a vain attempt to justify this theft. But the fact remains that is theft. The only valid way to acquire someone else’s property is through voluntary interaction. Taxation is involuntary.
  • Mason Brenhouse on 26 Nov 10
     
    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. 
  • Ali Goldman on 08 Dec 10
     
    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.
Ali Goldman

http://freedommanitoba.blogspot.com/2007/10/income-tax-is-theft.html - 1 views

Why Income Tax is Theft

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  • Ali Goldman on 08 Dec 10
     
    This is a blog that shows someones opinion on why income taxation if theft. It also shows how it is not fair.
Mason Brenhouse

History of the Income Tax in the United States - Infoplease.com - 0 views

www.infoplease.com/...A0005921.html

taxation wrong history philosophy

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  • Mason Brenhouse on 07 Dec 10
     
    History of income tax
Lauren Ganze

The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights - 0 views

www.cra-arc.gc.ca/...README.html

Taxpayer's taxes taxation tax bill of rights

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  • Lauren Ganze on 06 Dec 10
     
    This site has a link to a PDF file that is the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. I thought that this would help in the debate to prove that taxation isn't theft because in this scenario, the supposed thief (governement) is giving rights to the people it is "stealing" from. This proves that the government isn't stealing our money: it is taking a percentage of our incomes so that it may better maintain the society we treasure and thrive in. The PDF contains the 15 rights that a taxpayer enjoys.
Lauren Ganze

Canada Revenue Agency - 0 views

www.cra-arc.gc.ca/...rights-eng.html

taxation taxes tax rights right taxpayer bill of government

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  • Lauren Ganze on 06 Dec 10
     
    I thought this site might prove useful, and it did. It's a government site that holds links to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which contains the 15 rights that a taxpayer holds.
vince chatigny-barbosa

Animals lack free moral judgment - 1 views

debatepedia.idebate.org/...e_they_have_no_moral_judgement

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  • vince chatigny-barbosa on 05 Dec 10
     
    This is a website basically supporting the argument that animals lack the free moral judgment and basically cannot exercise any rights.
  • Lauren Ganze on 06 Dec 10
     
    "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.
sara tsapekis

Murder case-Reena Virk - 1 views

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  • sara tsapekis on 06 Dec 10
     
    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.
  • Lauren Ganze on 06 Dec 10
     
    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.
Kelsey Adams

The Animal Rights View - 2 views

www.furcommission.com/...rights.htm

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  • The capacity for suffering is a prerequisite for having interests at all, a condition that must be met before we can speak of rights.
  • In both the historic and modern views of animal rights, the key point is "sentience," or the capacity to experience pain or pleasur
  • In the animal rights view, if a being is capable of suffering, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration.
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  • They don't have to speak a word. Screaming, writhing about, crying and other behavior tells us they are in pain. We see the same sort of behavior in animals.
  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This website gives us the utilitarian point of view on how animal cruelty and their use as resource is continuously horrid. Jeremy Bentham said that as long as a being is capable of suffering, then there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. He said that the question is not can animals reason but do animals suffer?
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Highlight an important part(s) of the website for your team to read.
  • vince chatigny-barbosa on 05 Dec 10
     
    What affects us the most in our society: Suffering of a infant or the suffering of an animal? Obviously, we would rather an animal suffer opposed to an infant. If someone has to suffer, it should be animals because it the extreme is outrageous.
steven bloom

Animals share everything with us why not rights - 2 views

www.megaessays.com/...27604.html

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  • steven bloom on 03 Dec 10
     
    This website just talks our two main principle life and liberty. This website also says that since we have been sharing the earth with all these creatures over many years then they have the right to live also. This is actually an argumentitive essay and if you sign up to the website you will bbe able to see teh whole essay and all his points
  • Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 10
     
    This website's credibility is questionable. Please don't put too much stock in this.
  • vince chatigny-barbosa on 05 Dec 10
     
    What the website fails to mention is that nature is composed of food chains. The top of the food chain are smart/stronger and therefore are superior. We are also part of a food chain. Thanks to our superior intelligence and technology, we are therefore superior.
Mason Brenhouse

Libertarian Party of Canada - 0 views

www.libertarian.ca/...libertarian-party-faq.html

libertarian taxation philosophy wrong

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  • Government is force. Libertarians believe in a win-win voluntary society where people cooperate through trade and charity. The moral issue here is that Libertarians believe that it is not right to take forcefully from one person in order to provide for another's needs. Libertarians believe in minimizing taxation and funding government by other means if possible. Welfare for those in need should be provided through voluntary means. Forcing others to "give" is not just or generous. Government should not be deciding who needs welfare, because welfare is damaging to some people because it encourages dependency, lack of initiative, and poor planning. A free economy will produce more wealth for everyone. Taxation is robbing people of their wealth and the ability to invest that wealth in new business, which would benefit the poor.
  • Think of the possibilities for giving in a society with extremely low taxation. People are concerned about providing for their own families and living responsibly and they need to be free to make their own decisions with their money. Most people in our daily lives are good most of the time - otherwise society wouldn't function - we trust people enough as equals. However, the more power we give to others, the more skewed things become. As Lord Acton said, Power corrupts.
  • Mason Brenhouse on 04 Dec 10
     
    This is a site run by the Libertarians of Canada. They believe in minimizing the total amount of taxation. They also believe in the pricipal that someone's property is solely their's and no one else has the right to take it, even the government. 
Mason Brenhouse

What is Wrong with Inheritance Taxation? | Newsflavor - 0 views

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cons taxation wrong philosophy

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  • Some people think that inheritance taxes are the right way to redistribute wealth. But does it really do that? In effect, they just provide governments with more money to squander. If they really should redistribute wealth, they should be excluded from the normal government income and allocated in a special fund earmarked for the purpose. Some people think that inheritance taxes are downright wrong; taking away already taxed and hard earned money from people who earned it.
  • What happens when you tax an inheritance? Applying British standards, 50 percent of the inheritance gets lost to the government coffers. If this money is sitting in a savings account or in a safe, the fact might be annoying to the heir, but hardly life threatening to anyone. If the money on the other hand is sitting in a company providing work to people, losing half the money could mean the end of the company. This second case in fact doesn’t redistribute wealth, it kills it
  • Mason Brenhouse on 01 Dec 10
     
    According to this article the taxation of inheritance is actually an ineffective and actually steals hard earned money from the people who actually went out and earned it. It goes on to say that relatively 50% of inheritance is actually lost to the government. It speaks about working capitol which is money that is actively contributing to the economy and dead capital which is money that is lying dormant somewhere being saved. 
  • Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 10
     
    This is a very interesting article but make sure to use it as a secondary point and not your main argument.
Kelsey Adams

Turkeys: Factory-Farmed Torture on the Holiday Table | PETA.org - 1 views

www.peta.org/...ture-on-the-holiday-table.aspx

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  • More than 273 million turkeys are raised for food every year in the U.S.; about 79 million of them are slaughtered and eaten for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.(8,9) Before ending up as holiday centerpieces, these gentle birds spend five to six months on factory farms, where thousands of turkeys are packed into dark sheds with no more than 3.5 square feet of space per bird.(10) To keep the extremely crowded birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, workers cut off portions of the birds’ toes and upper beaks with hot blades and desnood the males (the snood is the flap of skin that runs from the beak to the chest).(11) No painkillers are used during these procedures.
  • Genetic manipulation and antibiotics enable farmers to produce heavily muscled birds who can weigh 35 pounds in as little as five months, and “their internal organs are noticeably crammed together in the little bit of space remaining for the body cavity,
  • a stress-induced condition that causes young birds to simply stop eating.
  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This website explains how turkeys are tortured in small dark factories until they are all stuffed up and prepared to be slaughtered.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Highlight the important parts.
Kelsey Adams

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan - 2 views

www.animal-rights-library.com/...regan03.htm

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  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This is an actual case which demonstrated the various points as to why the use of animals as a resource is wrong. Tom Reagan explains that the people who are against the right of animals believe that their only purpose in our world is to be eaten, surgically manipulated and to be exploited for sport or money. It even sounds awful to say such a thing.
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  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Where is this from? This is a file on the web but who publishes it and who is Tom Regan?
  • Kelsey Adams on 30 Nov 10
     
    Tom Regan is an American philosopher who specializes in animal rights theory. He teaches at North Carolina State University. He is the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights. His studies, books and cases have significantly influenced the modern animal liberation movement.
  • Kelsey Adams on 01 Dec 10
     
    I was not able to sticky note the page but here are some parts i would have highlighted: Singer and Frey both offer arguments that are motivated by utilitarian concerns Regan offers his own Rights View as an adequate moral theory: to respect the rights of an individual is to treat that individual as if she was inherently valuable rather than merely useful (improvement on utilitarianism) Nothing less than the abolition of using animals as food, in science, and in industry is morally acceptable according to Regan
  • Kelsey Adams on 01 Dec 10
Kelsey Adams

Visual of how many animals are killed per year under cruel measures - 1 views

www.animalsuffering.com/animal-cruelty.php

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  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This website gives an amazing visual as to how many animals are killed per year using awful and inhumane measures.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Stay away from the sensational, as tempting as it seems, and build RATIONAL arguments.
  • Daryl Bambic on 30 Nov 10
     
    Why do you want or even need visual? That will not help build any rational arugment.
Lauren Ganze

Is taxation really necessary? - 0 views

www.financialcrisis2009.org/...on-really-necessary-262112.htm

Definition of taxation taxes tax

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    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 30 Nov 10
       
      The definition of taxation
Kelsey Adams

U.S. Animal Death Statistics (Farmed Animals) | HumaneSpot.org - 1 views

www.humanespot.org/2582

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  • This report estimates that 10,378 million land animals will be killed for food in 2007, including 39 million cows, 121 million pigs, 4 million sheep and goats, 10 million rabbits, 317 million turkeys, 28 million ducks, 9 billion "broilers" chickens and 450 million "layer" hens
  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This site gives us an approximation of how many farm animals are killed each year for food. According to the website (http://hubpages.com/hub/Fur-Farms-Torture-Chambers-and-Slaughter-Houses) over 31 million animals are killed each year in farm factories (abusive factories).
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    This website has restricted access and I don't recommend it.
Catherine Delisle

Non-religious arguments against Euthanasia - 3 views

www.starcourse.org/euthanasia.htm

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      Catherine Delisle on 24 Nov 10
       
      This very credible web page is rich in arguments and has many clear and simple points that are very direct. There are a few points that I thought were more important than others. The first point was that assisting suicide was goes against law and public morality, which means that it is against social values. Also, they mentioned that if someone really wants to die, it may be "due to depression or misapprehension of their prognosis". Euthanasia is also irreversible. Some people can act on things while going through a tough time in their lives. Not only that, but euthenasia would create social pressures on vulnerable people. Euthenasia would also ruin relationships between elders and their children. Often, elders are seen as a burden, and with the option of euthanasia, they will feel pressured not to be a burden anymore. Lastly, the relationship between the doctor and the patient would be ruined. Patients would be afraid that they would be euthanised against their will, which is a real situation in Holland.
  • sara tsapekis on 24 Nov 10
     
    This website is straight to the point, and I like that it gives the reasons in point form, making the reading easy to understand. Many reasons given in the website are justifiable. The first reason, for example, which was that legalizing killing undermines public morality, is a very strong point.
  • sydney goldman on 30 Nov 10
     
    I think that this site is extremely easy to understand and makes some really good strong points against euthanasia that are not easily argued. it shows points from different aspects like health reasons, moral reasons, governmental reasons etc... all of these form a nice barrier that covers all of the possible argument that the other team will make.
Ali Goldman

Problems with Taxes - 0 views

www.vermonttiger.com/...problems-with-t.html

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  • Ali Goldman on 24 Nov 10
     
    This website shows a study on the taxes that people need to pay. This study took into consideration the income levels of people and how taxes can be a big problem for many people.
  • Daryl Bambic on 30 Nov 10
     
    Credibility is in question on this one. The site maintains that Vermont is fairer in its taxation. How will this support your side?
Ali Goldman

Company Taxes - 0 views

www.politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk/...57212-how-much-taxes-do.html

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  • Ali Goldman on 24 Nov 10
     
    This website shows how much taxes companies have to pay in different countries. It shows the percentage of tax in each country and how it can vary from country to country.
  • Daryl Bambic on 30 Nov 10
     
    "For a country to function properly, i.e., offer services (roads, schools, hospitals, etc.) to its inhabitants, it needs a certain amount of tax income. Whether it gets these taxes directly as corporate taxes or more indirectly as labor taxes doesn't really matter." Why or how are you going to use this to suuport your side?
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