Tag Archives: equity
Perry v. Schwarzenegger: Choosing Ethics Over Morality
Governments and courts need rational reasons to justify laws, especially laws that employ a separate and thus inherently unequal policy to deprive Americans of basic rights. That’s why they must use ethics, not morality, and why opponents of gay marriage need more than ideology, indignation, anger, and fealty to taboos established by men who believed the sun traveled around the earth to oppose a ruling based on facts, reason, respect and fairness. Continue reading
Ethics Quote of the Month: Judge Vaughn Walker
Judge Walker makes the case for basic ethical values in striking down California’s same-sex marriage ban. Continue reading
Give Back the Money, Charlie!
As an indication of his ethical principles, courage and integrity—or, rather, the lack of them—the decision not to give refunds to political donors alone is sufficient reason not to vote for Charlie Crist. Continue reading
Filed under U.S. Society
The Amazing Segregated Field Trip
Dicken Elementary School in Ann Arbor decided to take only its African American students on a field trip. You know, to help race relations…. Continue reading
Filed under Education, U.S. Society
Ethics Quote of the Week
The well-documented human tendency to endure unethical conduct from high-level performers while holding less gifted and accomplished individuals to higher standards of character serves to undermine ethics generally, confirming as it does the principle that the prettier, smarter, richer, more powerful, more famous you are, the less obligated you are to care about others, do the right things, or obey the rules. Continue reading
Unethical Website, the Sequel
The Special Olympics now has a censorship tool online! Continue reading
Beware of Ethicist Ethics
Avoiding a political or ideological slant is one of the most challenging tasks in rendering ethical analysis, and it is so easyto fall into the trap of letting bias rule reason that it helps to for ethicists to be regularly smacked upside the head. Me included. Continue reading
