Euthanaisa okay?

Documentaries with animals… it usually ends with a sad mood. Why? Many endings show about the euthanasia that was used to the animals. The animal’s owner cries because they are killing the animals before they die naturally. Some can think this is immoral murder but actually this is merciful solution. Euthanasia is not just a murder because, it is a death given to reduce pain, it is done a little before they die.

First reason why euthanasia is not a murder is because it is given to reduce pain. Do people use euthanasia method just to murder the animals? To reduce their numbers? No! The owners decide to use this method because it is even hard for them to watch their animals live everyday in pain, doing nothing, just feeling pain. In the book called “The day not pigs would die,” there is dog who got so badly hurt. Ears and skins are ripped apart, legs broken, etc. The main character decides to use euthanasia because there is only pain in the dog’s life, no meaning to live. Euthanasia is used in this kind of situation only. Thus, euthanasia is not a murder.

Second, it is done a little before the animals die. People don’t just walk to the barn on sunny ordinary day with gun to kill an animal. When the death is near and there is no chance to live or become well, they uses this method. So, it can be an effective and justifiable way.

As a conclusion, since euthanasia is used only in situation to reduce pain or before the animals die, it is a justifiable, merciful solution but not a murder. However, when using euthanasia, people should be careful if their judgment is correct and if it is an okay situation to use it.

Children advertisement

First, hildren are not mature enough to understand how they are targeted and how advertising works on their mind and purchasing behavior. Recent research, ‘Television viewing and aggressive behavior during adolescence and adulthood’, shows that children aged five to ten are not able to tell the difference between regular TV programs and commercials. This means that they do not even understand that advertisements are there to sell their products, and they tend to believe what they are shown on TV commercials is true. Actually the Canadian toy testing council said that the biggest area of concern with toy ads in Canada is exaggeration. Therefore, young children often think a toy can do a lot more than it can because of the way toys are portrayed in advertisement. So, Quebec city in Canada has banned print and broadcast advertising aimed at kids under 13. There are other several tactics used by advertisers, which is difficult for children to detect. For example, advertisers make a frequent use of weasel words which sound informative, but actually mean nothing. Thus, because children are not mature to understand the advertisement, advertising geared toward childre should be banned

 

Furthermore, junk food advertisement can lead to children’s obesity. Berkley Media Studies Group in California found that of the 77 foods advertised, only 5 were actually healthy options. And numerous studies have shown that children exposed to food advertising prefer and choose advertised food products more frequently than those not exposed to such ads. This means that there is a higher chance to eat unhealthy food, such as fastfood. Fast food chains spend more than 3 billion dollars a year on advertising, much of it aimed at children. A 2002 US study showed that fast food commercials during kids programming on Saturday morning are pitching bigger and bigger portions, a trend that researchers link to an the alarming rise of obesity among young people. To directly target children, they offer playgrounds, contests, clubs, games, and free toys and other merchandise related to movies, TV shows and even sports leagues.San Francisco, a little while after, passed the law that the toy the fast food market gives to attract the children should be bought with money because many children buy fast food because they want to have that toy. In fact, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in six children and teenagers were obese and the obesity rate from 2003 to 2011, has increased 3 times. Also, according to Heart and Stroke foundation of Canada - says that 1 in 4 Canadian children between 7 and 12 is obese.  To prevent more child obesity, advertisement should be banned. The recent study showed that the banning on junk food advertisement geared towards children could reduce child obesity and the number of overweight children ages 6-11 by 18 percent. Thus, advertising geared toward children should be banned.

population control - debate

Pros:

According to other developed countries then Korea, many of them came out not successful. For example, it is very wide known that China had this one child policy which let couples only have 1 child to control the population and prevent problems from population. However according to New York times, this plan that was held for 30 years came out unsuccessful. Also according to Economist's recent articles, it said that if one breaks that law, their child are sent to other countries and they are paid 3000$~$5000. As we can see in this, the population control actually brought more problems.



Cons:

People will have babies illegally. In China, they have one child policy so if they go against law, they have to pay huge fine or the babies are separated from their parents. Many people think this will help reduce population of Chinese, but actually a little bit very slowly (NYT) because many people are finding having babies illegally better. According to a site named pubmed central, ratio of legal abortions to birth increased in the 1980s. People who wants to have a baby will have it from every way possible and if one doesn't want a baby, they won't have a baby even before this policy is made. There are many cases where Chinese goes to another country, has a baby and make them another country's citizen. This kind of situation doesn't decrease the population a lot.

That is invading freedom of choice. Whether to have a baby or not is individual's choice. If they have enough monetary resources, there is high percentage that they will have a baby. Also, they will think about the problems it can be made. But just saying no babies, that is against human right and also invading freedom.