Tag Archives: consent
Ethics Quiz: The Re-cycled Sperm Trick
A woman uses oral sex to take a man’s semen and get pregnant with it. There ought to be a law! Continue reading →
What Your Boss Shouldn’t Ask You To Do
Your boss says you have to play pinball 30 minutes a day. Do you? Continue reading →
“Books for Christmas?!” A Christmas YouTube Ethics Lesson…For Parents
Reprimanding his parents for giving him a book was wrong, but the boy had an excuse: he was, after all, only three. What his parents did to him was far worse, and they have no excuse at all. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Education, Family, Literature, The Internet, U.S. Society
Tagged as childhood, consent, embarrassing children, ethics, fairness, humiliation, materialism, parents, privacy, respect, responsibility, The Golden Rule, YouTube
Ethics Fouls and Julian Assange’s Rape Case
I’m waiting to find out if Mr. Assange will send a letter of congratulations to the Guardian for embracing his values by releasing his police report. Continue reading →
Filed under Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, Unethical Websites, War and the Military
Tagged as "no means no", "sex by surprise", abuse of process, AOL News, bias, biased reporting, confidentiality, consensual sex, consent, Dana Kennedy, ethics, fairness, holding charges, irony, Jessica Valente, journalistic ethics, Julian Assange, justice, leaking, North Carolina, privacy, prosecutorial discretion, prosecutors, rape, rule of law, sham proscutions, State v. Way, Sweden, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Wedny Murphy, Wikileaks, withdrawn consent
More Zombie Ethics: George Lucas, Re-Animator
It seems that cinema innovator and mega-mogul George Lucas is using a large chunk of his “Star Wars” merchandising lucre to purchase the rights to screen images of dead movie stars. His plan is to give his tech-magicians at LucasArt the opportunity to perfect the process of re-animating and manipulating them to appear in new roles in new films.
This is unethical and wrong. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Law & Law Enforcement, Literature, Popular Culture, Professions, Science & Technology, U.S. Society
Tagged as "Bridalplasty", "Star Wars", "the Dark Side", "The Shootist", Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Computer Generated Images, consent, dignity, Direct TV, Don Seigel, fairness, George Lucas, greed, Hollywood, integrity, John Wayne, legacy, movie stars, Paul Newman, profit, reputation, respect, special effects, The Golden Rule, zombies
Murchowski’s Unethical Zombie Endorsement
I don’t care that Tes Stevens taped an endorsement of Murchowski’s primary candidacy before he died, and it doesn’t matter that Stevens’ family approved the use of the zombie endorsement now. Murchowski’s use of the video is doubly unethical. Continue reading →
Filed under Etiquette and manners, Family, Government & Politics, Science & Technology
Tagged as advertising, betrayal, consent, deception, dignity, endorsements, ethics, exploitation, fairness, honesty, Joe Miller, loyalty, misrepresentation, respect, Sen. Lisa Murchowski, Ted Stevens, zombies
The Unethical Humiliation of Sister Rita X
Hannity seems to think it is amusing to his listeners for him to allow this opinionated, loud and deluded woman rant on in response to his goading. He also thinks, apparently, this it is a powerful indictment of progressive cant to have an advocate of sorts sound just as deranged as conservatives like Hannity believe all liberals really are Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Ethics Scoreboard classics, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Race, Religion and Philosophy
Tagged as callers, consent, cruelty, exploitation, fairness, humiliation, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, mockery, niceness, respect, ridicule, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sister Rita X, The Golden Rule, William Hung
A Traveling Photographer’s Code of Ethics
The Photo Foodies have posted a sensible, compassionate, clear ethics code for photographers, particularly applicable to those working in foreign countries. It concentrates on the act of taking the photograph, not what one does with the image afterward. Excellent work, … Continue reading →
Filed under Animals, Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Etiquette and manners, Journalism & Media, Professions
Tagged as consent, courtesy, ethics, ethics codes, fairness, kindness, Photo Foodies, photography, respect
Porn: Finding Ethics in the Strangest Places
Do those in the porn industry think about, care about, or practice ethics? It there such a thing as ethical porn? Continue reading →
The Ethics Of Using A Facebook Mole
What if a Facebook friend request is really an attempt to gather dirt? Is this an ethical tactic for a lawyer? Most lawyers seem to think so, but the only Bar that has considered the topic says “No.” Continue reading →
