Ethics in practice : an anthology / edited by Hugh LaFollette.

Life and death--Euthanasia--Why phusicians should aid the dying--Justifying physician assisted deaths--Rule utilitarianism and euthanasim and euthanasia--Dying at the right time--Abortion--A defense of abortion--On the moral and legal status of abortion--An argument that abortion i wrong--Redefining abortion--Animals--Allanimals are equal- -The moral community--Moral standing--The case for animal rights--Learning to see the animals again--The personal life--Familu and friends--What do grown children owe their parents?--Emotional exploitation--The priority of personal interests--Morality, parents, and children--Sexuality-- What's wrong with rape--Morality and human sexuality-- Plain sex--Why homosexuality is abnormal--Homosexuality, morals, and the law of nature--Virtues--Servility and self respect--Generosity--On improving people by political means--The social basis of character:an ecological humanist approach--Liberty and equality--Freedom of actio --Against the legalization of drugs--Taking drugs seriously:Liberal paternalism and the rationality of preferences--Permissible paternalism:saving smkers from themselves--Free speech--Freedom of thought and discussion --Do we have right to pornography--Pronography, speech acts and silence--sticks and stones--Speech codes and feminism--Sexual and racial discrimination--Racisms-- Oppression--Wexual harassment--Date rape--Men in groups: collective responsibility for rape--Affirmative action- Affirmative action--The rights of allan bakke--Affirmative action as equalizing opportunity for rape--Men in groups: collective responsibility for rape--Affirmative action-- Affirmative action--The rights of allan bakke--Affirmative action as equalizing opportunity:challenging the myth of "preferential treatment"--Justice--Punishment--Punishment and desert--Two concepts of rules--Repentance and crimina punishment--Making hard time even harder--The philosophy of state compensation--Economic justice--A theory of justice--The entitlement theory of justice--Displacing the distributive paradigm--Property rights, economic inequalities--World hunger and international justice--Free movement:if people were money--Famine, affluence and morality--Rights and the duty to bring--Hunger,capability,and development--Feeding people versus saving nature?- Environment--The land ethic--Reconciling anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric--Reconciling anthropocentric and nonathropocentric environmental ethics--The power and the promise of ecological feminism--Animal liberation:a triangular affair.