How did the third contemporary issue effect your principles? What more have you found that you need to reasonably respond to these moral issues beyond a set of principles? Are their other skills or knowledge that will make you a more effective ethical being? What are they?
The third issue slightly effected my principles on the issue of capital punishment. I found that I have more a problem with the prison system, then I thought I before these readings, and discussions. I have found that we should keep a death penalty on the books, but not for actual use, only as a deturrent for future crimes. I have also found that vengence is the only real reason people are executed (because the determent theory has so many holes), if that is the case then the death penalty is never justified, because venegence is only a wrong done on the basis of a wrong. (AKA an eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind). I'm sure there are always going to be other skills and knowlege that I will need to become a more ethical being, however what they are, I don't know at this point. I feel that the discoevery of these skills is the true meaning of life and we must keep live and learn in order to become more ethical beings.
I commented on Javier Luque's blog
I have to respectfully disagree with keeping the death penalty on the books solely for deterrent. Unfortunately, I don't really trust our country's legal system, and I think the death penalty would end up being utilized anyway, and often in the case of racism/discrimination. Therefore I cannot support the death penalty in any case, because it may fall into the hands of a corrupt system.
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