Tag Archives: civil disobedience

January 23, 2012

Ethics Dunce: Sen. Rand Paul

A U.S. Senator cannot be an ethical protester. Continue reading →

Filed under Citizenship, Ethics Dunces, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Professions, U.S. Society

Tagged as airport security, civil disobedience, ethics, full-hand pat-downs, Libertarianism, protests, Rand Paul, responsibility, Transportation Security Administration

October 21, 2011

What Would Happen If, While Submitting To a TSA Search, You Started Singing “The Piña Colada Song”?

A retired Air Force Lt. Colonel apparently was arrested at a TSA airport checkpoint after she refused to stop reciting the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights (“Searches and Seizures”) while she was being screened. But that’s not the issue. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society

Tagged as air travel, airport security, civil disobedience, fairness, Fourth Amendment, full-hand patdowns, Homeland Security, honesty, privacy, Transportation Security Administration

October 19, 2011

Occupy Wall Street: Unethical Demonstration, Unethical Supporters

At a time when the nation needs solutions, serious debate, constructive analysis, and non-partisan and non-ideological cooperation, a major party has embraced a movement with a message that is negativity and nothing else, rooted in ignorance and emotion. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Citizenship, Education, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Leadership, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Ethics Bob", arrogance, civic literacy, civil disobedience, Democratic Party, demonstrations, Doug Shoen, ignorance, Occupy Wall Street, President Obama, respect, violence

September 15, 2011

Comment of the Day: “Unethical Business Practices: Online Reputation Services”

Tgt has some uncomfortable truths about the practicalities of taking principled stands, in the context of my discussing the dishonest and bullying tactics of so-called online reputation protection services without specifically naming any one company. Continue reading →

Ethics Quote of the Week: The Washington Post Editors

So sympathetic has much of the media, and a lot of ethics alarms commenters of good ethical pedigree, been to these as–self-indulgent, publicity-seeking, First Amendment-trivializing grand-standers (in part because the park police may have been excessively harsh to one of the arrested demonstrators, though that is irrelevant to the dancing issue) that I feared I had finally entered the dreaded ethics Bizarro-world where all my instincts would seem backwards. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Ethics Quotes, Etiquette and manners, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", abuse of power, assholes, Bizarro World ethics, civil disobedience, civil rights, civil rights protests, Code Pink, consideration, conspiracies, dancing at national monuments, demonstrations, ethics, Facebook, fairness, First Amendment, flash mobs, free speech, government suppression of free speech, intimidation, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Mary Brooke Oberwetter, Richard Barnes, right to assemble, selfishness, Thomas Jefferson

December 14, 2010

The Ethics Of Refusing To Help Wikileaks

Do private corporations have an ethical obligation to allow Wikileaks to use their services? Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Business & Commercial, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Religion and Philosophy, The Internet, U.S. Society, Unethical Websites, War and the Military

Tagged as breach of confidentiality, censorship, civil disobedience, cowardice, ethics, Facebook, fairness, free expression, illegal activity, Julian Assange, MasterCard, partiotism, PayPal, private companies, secrets, Twitter, Visa, Wikileaks

October 31, 2010

Unethical Post of the Month: Jonah Goldberg

In his latest post on the National Review website, conservative blogger Jonah Goldberg wonders why the CIA hasn’t had the sense to assassinate WikiLeaks founder and current renegade leaker Julian Assange. That’s right: Goldberg believes that in the national interest (for Assange has gathered and leaked massive amounts of classified information relating to U.S. military operations), the U.S. government should murder an Australian citizen without due process, a trial, or anything approaching regard for law, ethics, and human rights. Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Citizenship, Government & Politics, History, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Professions, The Internet, U.S. Society, War and the Military

Tagged as assassination, black ops, C.I.A., civil disobedience, classified documents, Daniel Ellsberg, espionage, ethics, Hiroshima, integrity, Jonah Goldberg, Julian Assange, leaks, military secrecy, murder, Nagasaki, National Review, President Richard Nixon, terrorists, The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, torture, treason, values, WkiLeaks

May 25, 2010

Chicken Suit Ethics

“First they came for the man in the chicken suit, and I did nothing…” Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Chickens for Check-ups", "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day", "Rowan and Martis's Laugh-In, barter, campaign advocacy, chicken jokes, chicken suits, civil disobedience, ethics, fairness, First Amendment, free speech, Harry Reid, humor, Nevada, PETA, polling places, satire, Sen. Harry Reid, Senate primary, Sue Lowden

April 11, 2010

King Downloading Backlash: Randy and the Rationalizations

Defending Randy Cohen’s embrace of web piracy last week, other bloggers get lost in rationalizations. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Citizenship, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Science & Technology, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "The Ethicist", civil disobedience, courage, duty of citizenship, ethics, Henry David Thoreau, illegal downloading, Mike Mesnick, piracy, Randy Cohen, rationalizations, Stephen King, Tech Dirt, theft

November 30, 2009

Student Booze, the Police, and the Facebook Mole

Police use of a Facebook mole to nab underage drinkers is not unethical. Utilitarian principles apply in law enforcement, within certain court-defined limits. Society has chosen to approve the use of deception in the course of law enforcement. Continue reading →

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Filed under Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as civil disobedience, deception, Facebook, justice, legal ethics, legal ethics opinion, misrepresentation, Philadephia Bar Association, police ethics, privacy, rationalizations, under-age drinking, undercover investigations, Utilitarianism

Tag Archives: civil disobedience

Ethics Dunce: Sen. Rand Paul

What Would Happen If, While Submitting To a TSA Search, You Started Singing “The Piña Colada Song”?

Occupy Wall Street: Unethical Demonstration, Unethical Supporters

Comment of the Day: “Unethical Business Practices: Online Reputation Services”

Ethics Quote of the Week: The Washington Post Editors

The Ethics Of Refusing To Help Wikileaks

Unethical Post of the Month: Jonah Goldberg

Chicken Suit Ethics

King Downloading Backlash: Randy and the Rationalizations

Student Booze, the Police, and the Facebook Mole

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