To participate in the discussion board for each week, you will need to read the ethics essays that correspond to the chapter(s) assigned for that week. The PDF containing all ethics essays for the textbook chapters can be found under Course Content.

Please post one discussion question related to any topic from any one Ethics essay that corresponds to the assigned Chapters for the week. Discussion questions should be open-ended, invite students’ opinions and original thoughts, and not have any one correct answer that can simply be found in the textbook (e.g., do not ask for definitions or explanations of theories that can be quoted from the text). 

Please also post a reply to two different students’ discussion questions. Your replies to discussion questions should include your own original thoughts, reflections, and/or connections to your own life experiences/interests. In addition, no quotations should be used in your responses to discussion questions.

 read all files i attached than answer this 2 question, and write one question to Discuss with people.

  Is there any difference between substance abuse and taking drugs to enhance performance?

Do you agree with erasing bad memories when life should ideally be made up of both the good and bad memories?

Read the excerpt from Peter Kreeft on p. 310 in your text.

SCOUTING THE TERRITORY: The Impact of Religion

Love and anger, guilt and ecstasy, humor and solemnity, optimism and cynicism, peace anddoubt, hope and despairâreligion seems capable of evoking a response corresponding toevery peak and valley on the spectrum of human emotional life. Why is this? In the follow-ing passage, philosopher and theologian Peter Kreeft attempts to assess the impact of theidea of God.

AFROM PETER KREEFT

-Does God Exist?

The idea of God is either a fact, like sand, or a fantasy, like Santa.If it is a fantasy, a human invention, it is the greatest invention in all of human his-tory. Measure it against all the other inventions, mental or physical. Put on one side of

the scale the control of fire, the domestication of animals, and the cultivation of wheat;the wheel, the ship, and the rocket ship; baseball, the symphony orchestra, and anesthet-icsâand a million other similarly great and wonderful things. Then put on the otherside of the scale a single idea: the idea of a being that is actual, absolute, perfect, eternal,one, and personal; all-knowing, all-loving, all-just, all-merciful, and all-powerful; undy-ing, impervious, unbribeable, uncompromising, and unchangeable; a cosmic creator,designer, redeemer, and provider; cosmic artist, musician, scientist, and sage; the infiniteabyss of pure Being who is yet a person, a self, an âI.â It is disputable whether such abeing is a fact or a fantasy, but it is indisputable that if it is a fantasy, it is by far thegreatest fantasy in history. If it is humanityâs invention, it is humanityâs masterpiece.

The idea of God has guided or deluded more lives, changed more history, inspiredmore music and poetry and philosophy than anything else, real or imagined. It has mademore of a difference to human life on this planet, both individually and collectively, thananything else ever has. To see this clearly for yourself, just try this thought experiment:suppose no one in history had ever conceived the idea of God. Now, rewrite history fol-lowing that premise. The task daunts and staggers the imagination. From the earliesthuman remainsâreligious funeral artifactsâto the most recent wars in the Mideast, reli-gionâbelief in a God or godsâhas been the mainspring of the whole watch that ishuman history. Then answer the following questions:

1) How would human history be different if no one had ever conceived of God (think specifically about the areas of art, literature, music, science, morality, politics, law, and philosophy)?

2) What would have been better in human experience if there had been no religion?;

3) What would have been worse in human experience if there had been no religion?

Please write at least eight sentences