Category Archives: Romance and Relationships

November 1, 2011

Unethical Quote of the Week: Kim Kardashian

I can’t prove that Kim and Kris’s marriage is a fake, but virtually everything the Kardashians do is ruthlessly calculated with the reality show audience in mind, so the usual presumptions regarding something as intimate as a marriage are turned inside-out. Continue reading →

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September 14, 2011

The Worst Humanitarian Award Winner of the Year

Call me a stickler, but I think there should be an automatic “Beating a pregnant woman with bedpost” disqualification provision for humanitarian awards. Continue reading →

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September 8, 2011

The Tragedy of Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky’s life has never recovered from Bill Clinton. And he is accountable. Continue reading →

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August 29, 2011

The Ethicist, the Farkel Family, and the Perils of “Maybe”

Given a wrenching problem of hidden parentage, “The Ethicist” gives an equivocal and thus dangerous answer. Continue reading →

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August 15, 2011

Ethics Bulletin: Payback Is Not Always Unethical

An expectant mother asks Carolyn Hax: “Is it wrong that I don’t want my cheating husband, who abandoned me during my pregnancy, to be in the delivery room?” Hax says no, it’s not wrong…as long as you aren’t motivated by anger and revenge. Wait…WHAT? Continue reading →

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August 7, 2011

The Tricky Ethics of Trading Sex For Tuition

I am open to having my mind changed on this. I think it is a close question. Today, however, the Ethics Alarms verdict on Seekingarrangement.com and other websites that facilitate sex for tuition is that the sites, and the conduct they promote, is unethical. And we need, as a society, to make up our minds whether we are willing to make the ethical verdict loud and clear. Sex for tuition is on the rise in both the U.S. and abroad, and the legal system won’t stop it. The only thing that can is a cultural consensus that it is wrong. Continue reading →

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August 5, 2011

Now THIS is Sexual Harassment!

The Arizona Supreme Court has both censured former municipal court judge Theodore “Ted” Abrams, prohibiting him from serving as a judge again, and disciplined him as an attorney, suspending his law license for two years. Why, you may well ask? Well, it seems that while he was a judge, there was a bit of a woman problem: if an attractive woman appeared before Abrams as an attorney, she had a problem. Continue reading →

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Filed under Etiquette and manners, Gender and Sex, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, Romance and Relationships, U.S. Society, Workplace

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August 4, 2011

Another Sexting Pol: Drawing the Lines

From today’s  New York Daily News: “Garden State Democrat Louis Magazzu announced his resignation Tuesday after nude pictures he sent to a woman he had been corresponding with were posted on a Republican activist’s website. At least two of the … Continue reading →

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July 31, 2011

Ethics Hero: Ameneh Bahrami

The story of Banrani’s insistence on the full retribution available to her under Islamic law had spurred human rights protests around the globe. In the end, with all of Iran watching on live television, she decided on mercy instead of revenge. Continue reading →

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July 31, 2011

Scent Branding, Mind-Control, and Ethics

There are lots of ethical issues involved in assessing the practice of scent branding. Analyzing them, however, requires an open mind, at least at the outset. Continue reading →

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