Last minute philosophy

>>18982650
>present an ethical issue and a proposed solution
What, like abortion? The death penalty? Euthanasia?

>>18982663
Yeah pretty much, but it has to be something "original"

ethics isn't philosophy, its slavery

>>18982650
Animism.

Everything has a soul, go¡

>>18982650
89:6.4.In olden times, when a new building of any importance was started, it was customary to slay a human being as a "foundation sacrifice." This provided a ghost spirit to watch over and protect the structure. When the Chinese made ready to cast a bell, custom decreed the sacrifice of at least one maiden for the purpose of improving the tone of the bell; the girl chosen was thrown alive into the molten metal.
89:6.5.It was long the practice of many groups to build slaves alive into important walls. In later times the northern European tribes substituted the walling in of the shadow of a passerby for this custom of entombing living persons in the walls of new buildings. The Chinese buried in a wall those workmen who died while constructing it.
89:6.6.A petty king in Palestine, in building the walls of Jericho, "laid the foundation thereof in Abiram, his first-born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son, Segub." At that late date, not only did this father put two of his sons alive in the foundation holes of the city's gates, but his action is also recorded as being "according to the word of the Lord." Moses had forbidden these foundation sacrifices, but the Israelites reverted to them soon after his death. The twentieth-century ceremony of depositing trinkets and keepsakes in the cornerstone of a new building is reminiscent of the primitive foundation sacrifices.

>>18982706
10. Forgiveness of Sin
89:10.1.Ancient man only attained consciousness of favor with God through sacrifice. Modern man must develop new techniques of achieving the self-consciousness of salvation. The consciousness of sin persists in the mortal mind, but the thought patterns of salvation therefrom have become outworn and antiquated. The reality of the spiritual need persists, but intellectual progress has destroyed the olden ways of securing peace and consolation for mind and soul.
89:10.2.Sin must be redefined as deliberate disloyalty to Deity. There are degrees of disloyalty: the partial loyalty of indecision; the divided loyalty of confliction; the dying loyalty of indifference; and the death of loyalty exhibited in devotion to godless ideals.
89:10.3.The sense or feeling of guilt is the consciousness of the violation of the mores; it is not necessarily sin. There is no real sin in the absence of conscious disloyalty to Deity.

>>18982706
>>18982717
Shhhhhhhhhh........go away

>>18982680
What does that mean? Like you're supposed to come up with a specific scenario? Like a man has kidnapped your parents and said he will only release them if you murder two people, otherwise he will murder your parents....something like that?

This assignment sounds retarded, and your professor (teacher? maybe this is high school) sounds like an amateur (but if it IS high school, that's more understandable)

>>18982650
Write on the thics of the placebo effect. Is it ethical to proscribe people fake medicine, knowing that all a patient "really" needs is a placebo? Is it ethical to relieve pain through lies?