Tag Archives: absolutism
Poll: 84% Don’t Have a Clue What “Ethical” Means
If asked whether cloning a pet is unethical, your proper response is, “What a stupid question!” Continue reading
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Comment of the Day: “Another Santa Assassin”
A novel view of he three ages of man! Continue reading
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Another Santa Assassin
Yes, another grade school teacher decided to rescue her young charges from the fleeting myth of Santa Claus. Continue reading
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When The Ethics Alarms Don’t Sound: A Cautionary Tale From Seattle
I lawyer was provoked by a rude car owner, and the ethics alarms didn’t sound. Oh-oh…. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”
The Ethics Alarms resident atheist backs graduating high school senior Damon Fowler, voting for “hero” rather than the jerk-in-training assessment of my original posts on the student who got a prayer removed from his school’s graduation ceremony. Continue reading
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Damon Fowler, School Adminstrator-In-Training?
Either by design, bias, or because I was not sufficiently clear (always a distinct possibility), a lot of readers seem to have misunderstood the central principle in my post about Damon Fowler, the Louisiana high school senior who singled-handedly bluffed his school out of including a prayer in his graduation ceremonies. Let me clarify. Continue reading
No, It Still Doesn’t Justify Torture
Where torture by a nation dedicated to preservation of each human being’s inalienable rights is concerned, the end never justifies the means. Even if the end is the death of Osama bin Laden. Continue reading
Ten Lessons from the “Dog Wars” Debate
The “Dog Wars” Android phone app is apparently down for the count, the victim of too many complaints, threats and accusations that it was evil and irresponsible and promotes real, live dog-fighting, even though almost nobody sane makes similar claims about other video games. As with the subject of most posts on Ethics Alarms, however, the ethics issue lingers on, whether or not the specific incident that sparked the commentary has been resolved. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room”
Commenter Margo Schulter delivers a powerful, passionate, eloquent absolutist rebuttal to my post asserting an ethical defense of Osama bin Laden’s targeted killing/assassination/execution by U.S. military personnel. Continue reading →
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