Monthly Archives: August 2010
Yes, Sookie Stackhouse Is Unethical
From the You Find Ethical Controversies in the Strangest Places Dept. Continue reading
The Legal Rape, and the Limits of Cultural Tolerance and Religious Freedom
There are some core ethical principles that the United States should never flinch at declaring are not merely conditionally right or culturally right, but absolutely right, and that our respect and tolerance for the beliefs and practices of other religions and cultures stops at killing, slavery, rape, subjugation, racism, bigotry, assault mutilation, child abuse, polygamy, animal cruelty and suppression of human rights, whether or not the victims of such absolute unethical conduct assent to it or not. Continue reading
The Most Unethical Businesses and Viatical Settlements
It is good to see viatical settlement companies placed in the same group of ethics violators along with whalers, ivory traffickers and the international arms dealers. They belong there. Continue reading
Obligation or Charity: Retired Baseball Player Pensions and Fairness
It is not unfair for players of the pre-1979 era to have to live with the conditions they agreed to when they played. Much of their argument sounds like mere jeolousy and envy, which is often expressed by the sentiment that it is unfair when life treats similar individuals disparately. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Daily Life, Professions, Race, Sports, U.S. Society
Politics, Ethics, and the Idiot Problem
Unethical people can change if they want to, and many do. Idiots, unfortunately, cannot change the characteristic that leads causes them to do hurtful things. Continue reading
Staten Island Ethics Quote of the Week: Hate—Bad; Greed, Disrespect and Envy—Meh
If the point of hate crime legislation is to gradually replace this with a new version, declaring theft inspired by envy, greed, revenge or a sense of entitlement less offensive to society that theft based on bigotry, it seems to be working…at least in Staten Island. Continue reading
Summer Rerun: “Ending the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Trust in America”
Trust is the reason why ethics is so important in America: if there is a single post of the more than 700 I have written here since October 2009 I would like people to read, this is it. Continue reading
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“Hyping,” Reporting, Responsiblility, and Race
If a news story was “about race,” as the Washington Post editor said, why didn’t the Post reporting mention the race of the participants? Continue reading
Filed under Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Race
