LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Fact, On Liberty, Cerebral Palsy
16 Jul 2015
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Essential characteristics adversarial, open access, dignity and decorum. Normative=moral positions-to know what is right or wrong. 3 influences life: validation, sex morality, money. Effect on feelings, religion, punishment, adherence to the majority. 1952, apa listed homosexuality in dsm as a sociopathic personality and disturbance. 7th printing of dsm-11 in 1974 that homo wanst a disorder. Vote by apa trustees in 1973 category as sexual orientation disturbance . Fact=confirmed, verified and understood as true by majority. Compete for same set of facts (2 sides to a story) Philosophical tension between freedom of consciousness and humanistic determined by social facts. 3 others are older and have families to support, 17 year old has no dependents. 2 sentenced to death and 1 to prison. Then life sentence and released after 6 months. R. v. latimer & the defence of necessity". Perka v. the queen, defense of necessity as an excuse.
