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Human Rights – Universal or Culturally Relative?

I believe that the human rights should be universal – they should apply to everyone, regardless of background, race, and religious beliefs. Saba’s family in Pakistan and probably most of the community and country believe that human rights are culturally relative – where one’s rights are culturally dependent, and that there are no moral…

Do people really have free will?

Do people really have free will? This is a more psychological question than anything. Of course, people do have free will. But the question is, what influences the choices they make? Free will means that one has the choice to make any free decision, without any restriction whatsoever. People do that all the time, but why? What…

Global Perspectives – Sharing Task

For class today, we had a little project to do. We had to discuss what topic we wrote about for our Summative Assessment and write them out on post-it notes: I chose to blog about the Gay Conversion Therapy in China, where homosexuals would be brought to hospitals and the like to have “therapeutic sessions”…

How the role of genetics determines one’s character

What do you think now about the role of genetics in determining your character?Has the information you have heard changed your mind or confirmed your beliefs? Write a paragraph to explain how significant genetics have been in influencing your identity. I think that genetics definitely determine my character to a certain extent. It makes me…