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Ethics Quote of the Week: Chris Matthews

Pat Buchanan is loyal; it’s some of his other ethical values that are in doubt. Continue reading

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The “Your Right To Engage in Ignorant and Dangerous Speech Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Unethical For Me To Help It Be As Loud As Possible” Dept.: ABC Full Circle and WordPress

As the New Year dawns, we see two companies in the communications business, and two situations raising the question, is it ethical or unethical to allow someone to use your product or service to broadcast harmful speech? Continue reading

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Tim Tebow Hatred and the Rabbi’s Fears

Religious intolerance, and disrespect for religion generally, has reached dangerous levels when an ethical, sincere, loving young man like Tim Tebow can become the object of such attacks simply because he is openly devout Continue reading

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Incompetent Elected Official of the Month: California State Senator Ted Lieu

California state senator Ted Lieu is angry that Lowe’s is bending to one boycott threat, so his solution is to threaten it with another one. Continue reading

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Unethical Website of the Month: “Occupy Black Friday” Facebook Page

I have believed from the very beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement that it is likely to end very badly. The blatantly unethical “Stop Black Friday” website confirms that belief. Continue reading

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Comments of the Day: “Incompetent Elected Official of the Week” : Rhode Island legislator Lisa Baldelli-Hunt”

I was unable to choose between the three Comments of the Day that follow, one by the mother of a registered sex offender, another by Sherika, who includes a letter written on behalf of the families of registered sex offenders, and the third by Shelly Stow, who offers a letter she wrote to the legislator (and that was bounced back to her). Continue reading

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Incompetent Elected Official of the Week: Rhode Island State Rep. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt

Rhode Island State Rep. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, to use her own term, is the worst of the worst. Continue reading

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Introducing the Munroe Rule: “If You Teach, Don’t Denegrate Students Online; If you Denigrate People OnLine, Don’t Teach”

Have we not reached the point where any teacher who is so careless, foolish and irresponsible as to post blog, Twiter or Facebook rants against their students (as with Natalie Munroe) or to ridicule or denigrate groups that their students may or do belong to (as with Knox, Buell, and special ed teacher Jeremy Hollinger) must be judged too untrustworthy (and dumb) to teach anyone or anything, including sea monkeys? Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “Unethical Website—and Readers— of the Month: The Spearhead”

Bill Price, who operates the website I criticized in the post “Unethical Website—and Readers— of the Month: The Spearhead,” offers this response in the Comment of the Day. Among other things, he mentions some new revelations about Victoria Liss, the Seattle bartender whose inept and excessive web-shaming brought infamy and abuse down on the head of the wrong man. Continue reading

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Ethics Dunce: The American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society has rejected an offer to raise up to a half million dollars for cancer research through the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life program. Why? Because those offering are atheists, as if that explains anything. Continue reading

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