Essay 4

The Lumber company could spray the chemical to make trees grow faster but testing has shown a chance to cause cancer. What is the trade off, instead of lumber price going down, a number of jobs opening up, and a smaller need to cut as many trees since they grow back so fast, we now have a chance that we are being protected. We are trading many benefits without being given the choice.

I think the best solution would be to allow them to apply the chemical under certain conditions. The first condition would be that they would have to make sure that they are not using it in large concentrated amounts as that was when it was seen as dangerous. The second condition would be that they would have to make sure it was a safe distance away from any large housing groups.

The lumber firms would obviously be greatly benefited if able to use the chemical, they will be able to lower thier price to increase demand. Thier supply will greatly increase allowing them to cut back on some land if needed. They will also be able to export farther, allowing them to reach other markets.

The custumers would be benefited by a lower price for wood. The market for wood would increase opening new jobs in a number of areas. The economy would probably have an increase and as long as the chemical remains used in only the US it would give us something we could easily trade in large amounts.

The only people who might have a reason to be against it are the people who live near by. The people who live close by acording to the test may develope cancer, I would say they should make a deal that if the lumber companies use this near thier house they must buy AC purifiers for the houses, they dont cost much. The other people would only be those that work with the chemical but they know the risk, will be wearing protection and will be making a profit so they cant complain much. I think it would be a good choice to allow the use of the chemical under watch of the crazy enviormental people, they would make sure the lumber company doesnt break any rules.

Bending the Rules?

Would it be ok to paraphrase an auther without giving him credit in order to get a good grade. Even though the generic responce to this would be something simple like, cheating is bad. When a person really thinks about the question the answer becomes harder to see. A person first probably begins to think of all the factors that could play in to it, what if you really agree with the author but your teacher wanted you to come up with it on your own. You also think of the fact that doing this could mean getting int to your dream college and effecting your future.

First we can look at what would be morally correct. I doubt many people would say cheating is the right thing to do. The problem is most people would prefer to think of it as the ends justifies the means. We seem to twist it more and more in our minds thinking of how its not that bad for us to steal another persons words.

Personaly the thing that would probably keep me from pagerizing the most would be the fear of getting caught. I know that sounds bad but that is why we have fear, to keep us from doing stupid things. It is good to take in to account that getting caught could have far worse effects than getting a slighly lower grade from not cheating.

I would like to say that I would definately not cheat but I cant, I know id think about it a lot, and id like to hope that I would do the right thing. Choices like these are very hard for many people, the right thing to do is not lwaysthe easy thing to do. Just saying you should always do the right thing isnt very helpful, the best thing i can say is think of the consequences and the fear you will deal with wondering if someone will catch it.