Tag Archives: empathy
Ethics Challenge: Two Mothers, Young Love and Deception
A friend with a teenaged daughter has an ethical problem to solve. Did I give her the right advice? Continue reading
Filed under Daily Life, Family, Gender and Sex, Love
Comment of the Day: “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”
The Ethics Alarms resident atheist backs graduating high school senior Damon Fowler, voting for “hero” rather than the jerk-in-training assessment of my original posts on the student who got a prayer removed from his school’s graduation ceremony. Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Education, Religion and Philosophy
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Damon Fowler, School Adminstrator-In-Training?
Either by design, bias, or because I was not sufficiently clear (always a distinct possibility), a lot of readers seem to have misunderstood the central principle in my post about Damon Fowler, the Louisiana high school senior who singled-handedly bluffed his school out of including a prayer in his graduation ceremonies. Let me clarify. Continue reading
The Giordano Decision, Sympathy and Malfunctioning Ethics Alarms
Sympathy and empathy are wonderful and admirable qualities, but they can mess up ethics alarms but good, causing them to ring out with gusto when perhaps they shouldn’t be set off at all…like in the Giordano custody case. Continue reading
The Conclusion to “Texas Cheerleading Ethics: Cheer Your Rapist” (And You’re Not Going To Like It)
Sometimes the law, justice and ethics have nothing to do with each other. The case of the cheerleader who wouldn’t cheer for her rapist is one of those times. Continue reading
Filed under Education, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement
“Lethal Advocacy”: Not Ethical, and Not Protected Speech, Either
When a crowd watching a man on a ledge starts chanting “Jump! Jump!”, it is criminal as well as bloodthirsty and unethical? Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, U.S. Society
Comment of the Day: “The Tears of Keith Ellison”
Less to do with the post and more concerned with weightier matters is this thoughtful comment by blameblakeart, the Comment of the Day. Continue reading
Read This To Your Mother…or Somebody’s Mother
If we all make certain that the most vulnerable in out society are armed with the information they need to be properly wary, imagine the tragedies we can help prevent together. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week: CNBC Financial Analyst Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow sounded amazingly callous, but his instinct was neither unusual now something we all have experienced ourselves. Continue reading
Comment of the Day:”Yes Julea,You Have A Right To Your Beliefs; You Just Don’t Have A Right…”
An Ethics Alarms heartfelt thank you and “I owe you one!” to Ethics Sage, for cutting to the other core ethical point about what was wrong with Julea Ward’s refusal to counsel a gay student in this Comment of the day. Continue reading →
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