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On the Moral Status Of Vampires


How can changes in personality/values of a person who turned into ...

if you become a vampire you are not "less moral"or you have a change in your personality, you are still the same but you didnt knew that you ...

How Should We Judge Vampires? - BuffyForums

I don't thin vampires are animals either. In moral status, the soulless vampire is below an animal in many ways. Take the case of a show tiger attacking its ...

The vampire's dilemma; practices of natural law reasoning

Essentially, you answer “(C) God could not have created [a] world” with vampires, on the grounds that “God cannot make a being which relies for ...

What does it mean to be human? Do Twipires lose their humanity?

The Cullens may have temporarily lost it in transforming to blood thirsty vampires, but in their constant struggle to resist blood, they retain ...

Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer[1]

This event drives Faith to become a rogue slayer in the employ of the forces of evil. Humans, therefore, have a special status in Buffy's moral system. This ...

Does The Vampire Diaries laugh at any notion of absolute morality?

Does The Vampire Diaries laugh at any notion of absolute morality? ... forgiveness? The answer seems to be: moral relativism is sexy, dammit.

Humanity, Apathy and Virtue Ethics - Onyx Path Forums

No need to create artificial no-win scenarios. The odds are stacked against Vampires whether the Morality is fair or not! Most will withdraw and ...

The Morality Thread - How evil are your Kindred? - Onyx Path Forums

These chronicles tend to believe that vampires as a whole are worse than humans, but they aren't categorically monsters. Just predisposed ...

SLAV 230 midterm 1 .pdf - 2 Think about early examples of...

I feel as though vampires could be a hypothetical argument for Kantian ethics . ... status. But as soon as true the nature of the character ...

MORAL AGENCY IN OTHER ANIMALS Various philosophers have ...

This finding casts further doubt on the thesis that only human beings have moral status. In a recent article, Tibor Machan argues that ''[n]ormal human life.

The Vampire's Moral Dilemma: Moral Orientation in a World Full of ...

They face trials in a world ruled by predators. Immerse yourself in the complex moral orientation of vampires as their thirst for blood goes ...

Damon Salvatore: The Ultimate Vampire

And, given the framework of virtue ethics, he is right. Having from the very beginning established, and since then reinforced, the vampire as a ...

They Walk Among Us: Vampire and Immigration in Victorian London

The novel presents continuous contrasts between the folklore of Eastern Europe and the moral decency and scientific uprightness of modern London. That fact that ...

From Vampires to Vegetarianism in J.M. Rymer's Penny Bloods

In Varney, the eponymous vampyre appears a model of dietary restraint and of toleration for the different dietary ethics of others, but he consumes human bodies ...

Buffy the existentialist vampire slayer – Understanding Society

How do these theories help to shed light on the moral situation of the various characters in the drama? Kowalski considers an ontological theory ...

Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" - jstor

historical situation, sees freedom "as the recognition of contingency. [and]...insist[s] on the sheer contingency of individual existence" (26). Louis finally ...

the moral status of macabre fascination and the paradox of horror

tropes such as vampires draining the blood of innocents to maintain eternal youth, or the object of horror sneaking up behind an ...

Why Vampires are Fascinating

There are large and arcane bodies of knowledge about them: How they are made; How they move; Their various powers; How they can be destroyed. Vampires are ...

The Genocide of the Vampires - Eruditorum Press

A soul isn't a sign that someone is a good person or a bad person. Rather, a soul in Buffy is a shorthand for moral standing. To kill someone ...

Revolutionary Moral Fictionalism and the Problem of Imaginative ...

... moral status of things is markedly different from what we believe them to be. We have no trouble pretending that vampires exist, for example ...