If Your Best Friend Showed Up to Class with a Radically

question 75

Essay

If your best friend showed up to class with a radically different personality and set of memories, would you still think it was him or her? Explain.
The Unimportance of Identity
Derek Parfit

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Definitions:

Bona Fide Occupational Requirement

A criterion for job positions that is legitimately necessary for the performance of a job, even if it discriminates on certain grounds, under legal justification.

Human Rights Legislation

Laws enacted to protect individuals and groups against discrimination and to guarantee fundamental freedoms and rights, such as freedom of speech and equal treatment.

Discrimination

Unfair or unjust treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, age, sex, or disability.

Corporate Culture

The shared values, behaviors, ethics, and organizational ethos that characterizes members of a corporation or business.