ARW AA Blog Journal Assignment 6

Wagar's third future is communism. People make small groups and live in the community, so they do not need political system. They maintain their lives on their own. I think it is not good because people cannot have identity that they are in one country and they cannot live together with people in other communities.

ARW AA Blog Journal Assignment 5

According to Wagar, the second future is democratic socialism. Democratic socialism is a social system that does not have class and emphasizes an equality in labor. However, saving human from destruction of environment and injustice is redundant, so socialism will fall down. I do not want to live in socialism. I think that income differences occur by the differences of the efforts toward working, so socialism that has an equality in income regardless of the efforts toward working is unfair.

ARW AA Blog Journal Assignment 4

According to Wagar, the first future is capitalism. Capitalism is a social system that life of people in the privileged classes or affluent people is sweet, on the other hand, life of many others is toilsome and bear. This system has problems that it creates winners and losers but winners are very few, and it mounts costs to keep the system running smoothly. However, I think capitalism is better than the other systems because we can get money as to our individual efforts to work. Capitalism encourages people to work hard.

ARW AA Blog Journal Assignment 3

Making outline helped me to organize essay because I could write essay based on outline. Considering outline before I write essay is very useful because I can write down information that I want to include in essay, and then argument and supporting sentences becomes clear. So making outline was very good activity for me to write essay that has clear argument.

ARW AA Blog Journal Assignment 2

I chose euthanasia as a topic of essay1.
My thesis statement is that the treatment of euthanasia should be permitted to be administered because of limits in the physical and mental endurance of pain of a terminally ill patient, a patient's dignity, and the right to make the decision to die.
I chose this topic because euthanasia is not legalized in Japan but I don't think it is good. So I want to state why euthanasia should be administered. Also, there are many sources, so it is very good for writing.

ARW AA Blog Journal Assignment 1

I think the most important issue concerning bioethics is brain death. It is difficult whether it is right to judge brain death is his death or not. Even if his brain is dead, his heart can continue working with artificial respirator. According to Shannon, there are two methods of ethical decision making that are frequently used in bioethics, they are deontological ethics and consequentialism. In terms of consequentialism, I think brain death should be considered as his death because he is unconscious and he cannot reply to anyone. However, not using artificial respirator as life-prolonging treatment seems to kill the living person, so it is difficult problem. As a result, I think brain death is the most important issue concerning bioethics.

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Hi! This is Miku Nakanishi.