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UN secretary General Kofi Annan once remarked that "the world cannot stand aside when gross and systematic violations of human rights are taking place". What is
only in Tanzania, but it is worldwide problem, "violence against women," said then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1999, "knows no boundaries of geography, culture
is the Rwanda Genocide in 1994, in which about 800,000 Rwandans were murdered in 100 days. The Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "The events in Rwanda 10 years ago
the war torn such as Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and even Europe (Shawn 88). Similarly, secretary-general Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel peace prize just before
countless Canadians too. It has also been affirmed by international observers as diverse as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and U2 frontman Bono (who both declared
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Morality is not about, what we should not do, but about what we should do. It is about doing the right thing. It is about how we should live our lives. No one seems to have the power to control another's actions and life. In order to find out if anyone has power, the source or basis of morality has to be established. With regards to this, there are four schools of thought. The four schools of thought believe the basis of morality to be god, society, individual or culture.
Within the boundaries of the first school of thought exists the Divine Command theory. This theory states that god lays down what is right and wrong. The problem with this theory is the dilemma other wise known as the Euthyphro Dilemma. The Euthyphro dilemma rests on a modernised version of the question asked by Socrates in the Euthyphro: "Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?"
When we look at the first part of the dilemma, it says that what is morally good and wrong has already been defined. God is just reiterating it. What is morally good is independent of what god says. Then god loses his value. This questions the nature of god. When we look at the second part, it is said that something is right or wrong because god says so. That means, even if none of us feel that something is wrong, it will still be wrong because god says so. For example, if god says killing is morally right, and then killing is right. Killing is wrong no matter what god says so. And just like, we can't make killing right by saying so, god cannot as well. Then he can't be source of morality right?
Lets ignore the dilemma for a while. When god says something is right or wrong. Either he has a reason, or he does not. If he does, then when he says something is right he is reminding us that it is right not that he is the source of why it is right. This once again questions the nature of god....
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