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August 26, 2011

Memorial Ethics,Part I: Recalling The Martin Luther King Memorial Controversy

Now that the Martin Luther King Memorial is ready to unveil, it is a good time to reconsider the passionate arguments claiming that the choice of its artist, who lives in China, was an insult to King and what he fought for. Was it? Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Ethics Scoreboard classics, History, Leadership, Race

Tagged as artistic ethics, civil rights, Gilbert Young, Lei Yixin, Mao Zedong, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Memorial, outsourcing, racism, slavery, statues

June 8, 2011

Comment of the Day: “Batter Up! The Hypocrisy of Bigotry Victims Discriminating”

This Comment of the Day from Matt, on my post about gay softball leagues discriminating against bisexuals, is actually two days old. It was COtD-worthy when it first arrived, but edged out in a competitive day. It is a unique perspective on the issue, and a case of better late than never. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Comment of the Day, Daily Life, Gender and Sex, Law & Law Enforcement, Romance and Relationships, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the content of their character", bias, bigotry, bisexuals, Boy Scouts of America, civil rights, discrimination, ethics, fairness, gay softball, hypocrisy, minorities, music, NAAGAAA, respect, stupidity, transgendered

June 4, 2011

Batter Up! The Hypocrisy of Bigotry Victims Discriminating

Why, oh why, are there athletic teams in the United States of America that restrict their roster according to who the athletes have sex with? Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Gender and Sex, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Professions, Romance and Relationships, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the content of their character", African Americas, bias, bigotry, Boy Scouts of America, civil rights, discrimination, ethics, fairness, gay softball, Hispanics, hypocrisy, Judge John Coughenour, minorities, NAAGAAA, Pride Awards, respect, stupidity

June 3, 2011

“Grow Your Own Marrow Donor” Ethics and Consequentialism: The Ayala Family Saga

A child was conceived not out of love, or because she was wanted for whom she would become, but for what benefits her cells would confer on another daughter. A human being was exploited and used to further the welfare of another. An infant was used as a medical donor without her consent. This is not merely the “ick factor,” our reflex revulsion at strange, new uses of science. This is conduct that violates core ethical principles about human dignity. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Bioethics, Family, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Ick factor", "the ends justify the means", "The Island", Abe Ayala, abortion, absolutism, Anissa Ayala, autonomy, cancer, civil rights, clones, cloning, Consequentialism, corruption, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, ethics, fetus, human dignity, human exploitation, informed consent, leukemia, Marissa Ayala, Mary Ayala, medical ethics, Meredith Viera, mothers, organ donors, organ harvesting, Osama bin Laden's death, respect, slavery, The Today Show, torture, utiltarianism

June 3, 2011

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

May 31, 2011

Dancing With Thomas Jefferson: How Assholes Make the Law Spoil Life For Everyone

Now we have a little less freedom at national monuments, thanks to the determination of some people to abuse it. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Etiquette and manners, Government & Politics, History, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Religion and Philosophy, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "a man's home is his castle", "Glee", "the ends justify the means", "two wrongs don't make a right", abuse of power, assholes, Barnes v. Indiana, Bill Clinton, civil rights, civil rights protests, Common Law, consideration, conspiracies, dancing at national monuments, David Letterman, demonstrations, ethics, fairness, First Amendment, flash mobs, Fred Phelps, free speech, funerals, government suppression of free speech, intimidation, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Mary Oberwetter, Richard Barnes, right to assemble, right to resist unlawful entry, selfishness, Sen. Bob Packwood, Sen. John Ensign, sexual harassment, sexula harssment laws, The Alamo, Thomas Jefferson, violence, Westboro Baptist Church

May 5, 2011

From First Amendment Outrage to Ethics Hypothetical: The Westboro Baptist Church vs. Brandon, Miss. Hoax

Bulletin: The story about how citizens and law enforcement personnel in Brandon, Miss. foiled the efforts of Fred Phelps’ homophobic Westboro Baptist Church to disrupt the funeral of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan never happened.

But the lesson of the story is still valid. Continue reading →

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Filed under Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Religion and Philosophy, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", "two wrongs don't make a right", abuse of power, Brandon, civil rights, civil rights protests, conspiracies, corrupt law enforcement, ethics, fairness, First Amendment, Fred Phelps, free speech, funerals, government suppression of free speech, intimidation, jury nullification, Mississippi, right to assemble, Sgt. Jason Rogers, violence, Westboro Baptist Church

May 4, 2011

Comment of the Day: “The Ethicists, Backing Judge Walker and Gay Marriage, At An Unacceptable Price”

More on the continuing controversy over whether reasonable people think Judge Walker was too conflicted to rule on Proposition 8. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Comment of the Day, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, Romance and Relationships, U.S. Society

Tagged as "by any means necessary", 14th Amendment, bias, bigotry, California, civil rights, civil unions, conflicts of interest, courage, culture, double standards, duck hunt controversy, fairness, gay marriage, gays, homosexuality, journalistic ethics, Judge Vaughn Walker, Justice Scalia, legal ethicists, morality, Motion to vacate, natural rights, parenting, perversion, privacy, Proposition 8, public trust, rational basis test, reasonableness, recusal, responsibility, rights, same-sex marriage, Section 455(a) of Title 28 of the United States Code, Vice President Cheney

April 28, 2011

Don’t Cheer Mississippi’s Westboro Baptist Tactics Too Loudly: You Never Know Who Might Hear You

Sgt. Jason Rogers was buried in peace and dignity. The price of the funeral he deserved, however, was a government-assisted conspiracy to withhold the sacred rights he had died for. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, History, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society, War and the Military

Tagged as "Mississippi Burning", "the ends justify the means", "two wrongs don't make a right", abuse of power, Brandon, civil rights, civil rights protests, conspiracies, corrupt law enforcement, ethics, fairness, First Amendment, Fred Phelps, free speech, funerals, government suppression of free speech, intimidation, jury nullification, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, Mississippi, right to assemble, Sgt. Jason Rogers, violence, Westboro Baptist Church

April 28, 2011

The Ethicists, Backing Judge Walker and Gay Marriage, At An Unacceptable Price

My colleagues in the legal ethics field are arguing—decreeing, really— that Judge Vaughn Walker’s decade-long same-sex relationship didn’t need to be disclosed before he ruled against Proposition 8 (California’s voter-approved gay marriage ban) because, they say, it created no reasonable doubts about his impartiality. Coincidentally, they also really, really like his decision. But then, so do I. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Love, Professions, Research and Scholarship, Romance and Relationships, U.S. Society

Tagged as "by any means necessary", 14th Amendment, bias, bigotry, California, civil rights, civil unions, conflicts of interest, courage, culture, double standards, duck hunt controversy, fairness, gay marriage, gays, homosexuality, journalistic ethics, Judge Vaughn Walker, Justice Scalia, legal ethicists, morality, natural rights, parenting, perversion, privacy, Proposition 8, public trust, rational basis test, reasonableness, recusal, responsibility, rights, same-sex marriage, Section 455(a) of Title 28 of the United States Code, Vice President Cheney

Tag Archives: civil rights

Memorial Ethics,Part I: Recalling The Martin Luther King Memorial Controversy

Comment of the Day: “Batter Up! The Hypocrisy of Bigotry Victims Discriminating”

Batter Up! The Hypocrisy of Bigotry Victims Discriminating

Ethics Quote of the Week: The Washington Post Editors

Dancing With Thomas Jefferson: How Assholes Make the Law Spoil Life For Everyone

From First Amendment Outrage to Ethics Hypothetical: The Westboro Baptist Church vs. Brandon, Miss. Hoax

Comment of the Day: “The Ethicists, Backing Judge Walker and Gay Marriage, At An Unacceptable Price”

Don’t Cheer Mississippi’s Westboro Baptist Tactics Too Loudly: You Never Know Who Might Hear You

The Ethicists, Backing Judge Walker and Gay Marriage, At An Unacceptable Price

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