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The Sixth Extinction: The Duty of the Dominant Species to Undo an Ecological Downfall
A catastrophic event is underway. We are in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction, a modern and human-made extinction. The megafauna...
The Environmental and Ethical Impacts of the Meat Industry and Possible Solutions
Humans have been consuming the meat of other animals since the beginning of time. Now millions of years later, the process we apply to...
Crispr Gene Drives: Mosquitos Massacre or Malaria Miracle?
The African malaria mosquito is the most dangerous animal on earth, claiming roughly half a million lives each year. In 2016, there were...
The Hidden Price You Pay: An Analysis of Ethics, the Environment and Consumer Autonomy in the Coffee Industry
Our society has become virtually contingent on coffee for its survival. As coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, our...
Clean Water and Sanitation: A Global Crisis that Challenges Women and Children
Everyday women and children spend 200 million hours collecting water for their families, and 260 million hours looking for a place to...
Poaching & People: The Ethics of Ethnozootherapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Zootherapy, at least in the West, is usually seen as harmlessly using animals, especially dogs, to aid human recovery from psychological...
The Ethics of Living Forever & its Effect on Overpopulation
With the rise of new technologies, we focus on the furthering of society by finding new ways to make our lives more efficient. Under this...
Limiting Legacies: Overpopulation and the Right to Procreate
It is 2100. The world population is an astonishing 11 billion people, the maximum amount that the Earth can sustain, and yet, the...
The Modern Jurassic Park: Can De-Extinction Turn Back the Clock for our Environment?
What does a Dodo, a Wooly Mammoth, and a Western Black Rhinoceros all have in common? These species are all extinct, and have the...
America’s Toxic Prisons: The Ethics of Prison Construction in Highly Polluted Areas
“I suffered almost every day of the 15 months I was at that prison... it became clear to me that I [was] being left for dead... With no...
Saving Lives via Actively Ending Lives: the Ethics of Organ Donation Euthanasia
In this paper, I explore the ethical implications of organ donation euthanasia, a hypothetical procedure in which the cause of the...
On a Scale from 1 to 10: The Ethical Implications of Defining and Eliminating Pain
Source: Pixabay How do you define pain? Who decides how a patient’s pain is treated? Is it ethical for us to eliminate pain at all? How...
Thinking Out Loud: The Ethical Implications of Neural Implants
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay This paper focuses on neural implants and how they could affect us as we encounter more advanced...
The Effects of the Mushroom: The Responsibility of a Nuclear Age
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay On August 6th, 1945, the United States changed the world forever-- an atomic bomb was dropped on the...
$99 for a Lifetime of Worries: The Ethical Implications of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Doctor with a DNA helix and microscope behind him. This research paper explores the widely popular direct-to-consumer genetic test,...
From the Bedside to the Web-Side: Is Telemedicine Infringing on the Doctor-Patient Relationship?
Telemedicine concept. Doctor with a stethoscope on the computer laptop screen (Photo by JYPIX ) Have you ever had a virtual doctor’s...
You Are Polluting Your Water: How Pharmaceuticals are Redefining the Environment
Image by Jukka Niittymaa from Pixabay Pharmaceutical pollution in water is a widely known pressing issue but a less often acknowledged...
The Soldier Behind the Screen: The Ethical Implications of Semi-Autonomous Warfare
"Protesting Drones at Obama's Inauguration" by World Can't Wait is licensed under CC BY 2.0 This research paper focuses on the ethical...
In “Good” Hands? The Ramifications of Using Autonomous Robots in Pediatric Surgery
Photo by Bailee Darbasie of The da Vinci Surgery System at the Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center In the past decade, the...
The Genetic Playground: The Ethical and Religious Implications of Gene-Editing for HIV and AIDS
Image by LaCasadeGoethe from Pixabay The question of what are the ethical and religious implications of using gene-editing technologies...
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