Category Archives: Business & Commercial
The Perplexing Law and Ethics of Copyright Violations On The Web
Journalist Eriq Gardner tells of his experience with Righthaven, the organization that was created explicitly to sue bloggers and others for copyright violations on the web. He tells of how he came to believe that the defenders of copyright law, not those who would destroy it, had fairness, logic and ethics on their side. Continue reading
Illegal Immigration Insanity
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the legality of Arizona’s anti-immigration legislation, and in today’s Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank, one of the Post’s house liberals who has the integrity to be up-front about it, presented us with … Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “Ethics Chess Lesson: The Tale of the Kidney and the Ungrateful Boss”
New commenter Christine has a valuable personal experience to relate, as an individual who donated a kidney to a stranger herself. the main thrust of her post covers a topic that I have written on before but did not mention in this case, though I should have. Continue reading
Filed under Bioethics, Business & Commercial, Character, Health and Medicine
Ethics Chess Lesson: The Tale of the Kidney and the Ungrateful Boss
Several poor ethical choices by both parties resulted in a hopeless bind that was destined to cause unhappiness. Ethics involves thinking through the likely consequences of your actions. If you don’t think ahead and play ethics chess, you’re asking for trouble. Or to lose a kidney… Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Character, Health and Medicine, Workplace
The Heroic Bird-Watchers and The Shame of the Star Princess
Another cruise ship captain fails his ethics test. Continue reading
Filed under Around the World, Business & Commercial, Character, Ethics Heroes, Leadership, Professions
T-shirt Ethics and Bigotry In Lexington, Kentucky
What do we call conduct that only damages society, pulls it apart, encourages inequality and bigotry while feeding hate and distrust? Continue reading
Unethical Ethics: How Business and Government Encourage Unethical Thinking In Their Ethics Training
Jack Abramoff, the corrupt lobbyist turned federal prisoner, then author and now ethics expert, will be giving a lecture on government and personal ethics at The University of Texas at Austin’s business school on May 2. This is not as … Continue reading
Unethical Website of the Month: The Ethical Psychic Project
There appears to be nothing whatsoever ethical about the The Ethical Psychic Project, except that a bunch of people who decided they couldn’t make enough money selling phony deeds to imaginary uranium mines thought that the word “ethical” might suck in some marks. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Unethical Websites
Ethics Quote of the Week: Former Fox Mole Joe Moto
Gawker’s Fox mole has been outed, and he’s a fick. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Character, Ethics Quotes, Journalism & Media, The Internet
Were The Marlins Right To Suspend Ozzie Guillen for Loving Fidel Castro?
It is unethical to harm an employer by not recognizing that you have a duty not to embarrass the organization, or make customers wonder about the organization’s competence and judgment to hire a jerk like you in such a prominent position. That’s what Ozzie Guillen did. Continue reading
