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The Third Annual Ethics Alarms Awards: The Worst of Ethics 2011 (Part 2)

The second and final part of the Ethics Alarms 2011 Worsts. The Bests will be here soon! Continue reading

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Distracted Driving, Pot, and “The Great Debate”

In a “Great Debate” on ABC over the weekend, Barney Frank and George Will faced off over government regulation of private behavior. Both argued against a particular variety of government limitations on personal choice from an ideological perspective, and both, interestingly, failed to apply ethical analysis in the process. Continue reading

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Perspicacious Ethics: The Media Has A Duty Not To Make Us Dumber

Certainly the media is accelerating the decadence of society; does it have to intentionally do in the language as well? Continue reading

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Group Bigotry: Is This The Way It’s Going To Be? AGAIN?

I already covered this topic when Christiane Amanpour held an unrestrained “males are inferior managers because all the blood rushes to their penises” session on ABC’s “This Week” a few Sundays ago, but since it is becoming clear that the outbreak of gender bigotry in the media is more widespread than ABC, a second alarm is warranted. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day on “Girl Talk and Bigotry Ethics…”

Commenter Linda’s kind of thinking, and acting, makes our communities, our nation and our lives infinitely less productive and pleasant. And that’s why this is a very instructive Comment of the Day. Continue reading

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Girl Talk and Bigotry Ethics: Celebrating One-Way Gender Bias on ABC

Women undoubtedly enjoy being pronounced superior in some respects without having to accept or tolerate the burden of being inferior in others. Nevertheless, this blatant double standard is neither fair nor factual, and giving it such an unbridled airing on a Sunday morning public policy TV program is indefensible. Continue reading

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Ethics Alarms Presents “The Mosquies”…the Best and Worst of the “Ground Zero Mosque” Ethics Train Wreck

The “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy is an epic “ethics train wreck” that has spread its destruction far and wide, across regional, ideological and national borders, leaving confusion, misunderstanding and bad feelings in its wake. Now is as good a time as any to take stock of the situation, and to recognize those who have distinguished themselves during the carnage, for good or ill. To this end, Ethics Alarms presents its first annual (and hopefully last ever) awards for outstanding ethical and unethical conduct during the whole mess, “The Mosquies.” Continue reading

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