Taking sides : Clashing views on moral issues /

Taking sides : Clashing views on moral issues / Clashing views on moral issues Moral issues selected, edited, and with introductions by Stephen Satris. - 10a ed. - Dubuque, Iowa : Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, c2006 - xxii, 357 p. ; 24 cm. - Taking sides .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is moral relativism correct? -- Does morality need religion? --- Should the Navy assign servicewomen to submarine duty? -- Is abortion immoral? -- Must sex involve commitment? -- Should Congress be giving more financial support to abstinence-only sex education? -- Should human cloning be banned? -- Are government-supported faith-based charities a good idea? -- Should Congress allow the buying and selling of human organs? -- Should drugs be legalized -- Is affirmative action fair? -- Should the Supreme Court prohibit racial preferences in college admissions? -- Should same-sex marriage be allowed? -- Should hate-crime laws explicitly protected sexual orientation -- Should handguns be banned? -- Should the death penalty be abolished? -- Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized by the states? -- Is it morally permissible to eat meat?

"... 36 essays, arranged in pro and con pairs, that address 18 controversial issues in morality and moral philosophy."

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Ethics.
Applied ethics.
Social ethics.
Ethics--United States.
Social ethics.

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