Category Archives: Quizzes
Ethics Quiz: Is Harold Camping Too Deluded and Untrustworthy To Be Irresponsible?
He’s baaaaaaaack! Continue reading
Filed under Around the World, Leadership, Quizzes, Religion and Philosophy
Ethics Quiz: Does This Show That The Media Is Getting Better, or Worse?
Is the AP unethical and biased, but without sufficient nerve to go all the way, or jaw-droppingly incompetent and without quality controls, though possessing the integrity to correct a mistake? Continue reading
Ethics Quiz: Truck Nutz vs. Schweddy Balls
Which is more rude and uncivil, Ben and Jerry’s new Schweddy Balls ice cream, or the large, red, swinging plastic scrotum decorations that some truckers hang at the tail end of their rigs, Truck Nutz? Continue reading
Ethics Quiz: If This Is Wrong, Why Does It Make Us Cheer?
The mother’s conduct was violent, vigilante justice, and also assault and battery. Given all of these reasons why her conduct was unethical, why do we viscerally approve of it? Continue reading
Filed under Family, History, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Quizzes, U.S. Society
Ethics Quiz: Is It Ethical to Confess to a Murder You Were Acquitted of Committing, or Merely Annoying?
Your ethics quiz for today:
If you have been acquitted of a murder and have a guilty conscience about it, what is your most ethical course of action? Continue reading
The Shannon Stone Tragedy Ethics Quiz, Part II
Many commenters were upset with me for characterizing the tragic death of Shannon Stone, who fell to his death while trying to catch a ball during a Texas Rangers game, as the result of his own bad judgment, suggesting that I was impugning the character of a dead man. (I wasn’t.) That reaction sparks the second Ethics Alarms quiz question relating to the incident. Continue reading
Filed under Journalism & Media, Professions, Quizzes, Sports
Ethics Quiz: Is Beautifulpeople.com An Unethical Website?
Your ethics quiz today involves the dating site beautifulpeople.com, which is in the news for culling 30,000 applicants from its rolls because they were just too darn ugly. Continue reading
Ethics Quiz: Farrakhan, Snooki, Senator Portman, and University Speaker Ethics
Your Ethic Quiz question for the weekend: Which of these is the most unethical choice to speak at a University…Snookie, Sen. Portman, or Louis Farrakhan? Continue reading
