Rights and responsibility
- Created by: Amy Green
- Created on: 28-12-12 09:35
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- Rights and responsibility
- Key Words
- Bible
- Church
- A place of worship, where a community of Christians go
- Conscience
- An inner feeling of doing something right of wrong
- Situation Ethics
- Electoral system/Processes
- The way which voting is organised
- Proportional Representation
- The voting system where the amount of votes you collect, is the amount of seats distributed to each party
- National Government
- The government which is led by the prime minister, governs the whole county
- Local Government
- The local council which looks after local issues
- Decalogue
- The ten commandments
- Golden Rule
- The teaching of Jesus, you must treat others the way you would like to be treated
- Democratic Processes
- Ways in which citizens can take part in government
- Pressure Group
- A group created to inform the government policy on a particular issue
- Social Change
- They ways which society is changing and has changed
- Some people interpret the bible in different ways therefore there is no clear right way.
- Human Rights in the UK
- Tony Nicolson had Locked in Sydorm and wanted his wife to kill him, but because he was from the UK he had a right to life So his wife would have been accused of his murder
- Sanity of life
- Freedom of speech
- They were created to give people fundamental rights and freedoms
- Treating everyone the same
- Man is made in the image of God
- Some Christians do not agree with civil partnerships
- Some are also against interfaith marriages
- Some may disagree with a right to life, if a woman has been ***** and she wanted to have an abortion this would be going against the law
- Tony Nicolson had Locked in Sydorm and wanted his wife to kill him, but because he was from the UK he had a right to life So his wife would have been accused of his murder
- Electoral and Democratic
- A good democracy will listen to everyone, make the process easy to understand, male and female, doesn't change their mind
- Vote in secret because you can be manipulated because of different opinions
- It is important to vote because everyone has the right to vote, we are free and should take advantage of it
- The more people vote, the fairer the outcome will be and we wouldn't be living on what the rest of the population wanted
- However if you don't vote you can't complain because your vote could have made a difference
- Not all countries have a democracy and their citizens have no say on how they would like the country to be ran
- However if you don't vote you can't complain because your vote could have made a difference
- The more people vote, the fairer the outcome will be and we wouldn't be living on what the rest of the population wanted
- Genetic Engineering
- The deliberate alteration of a person by changing or destroying parts of human genetics make up in the embryonic stages of life in order to prevent disabilities in human beings
- Gene Therapy
- enables change to be made to cells that pass on defective information from one generation to the next allowing permanent changes
- PGD
- Removes defective genes from embryos so women risk passing disease so they can then pass on healthy babies
- Stem cell research is the most recent type of genetic research
- Lets people choose the characteristics of their baby
- Illegal in USA but legal here
- Christians believe in sanity of life so if embryos are killed to save others it is the lesser of 2 evils
- Improve Quality of life
- God has made everyone in the image of himself
- Only God has the right to end life
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