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Ethics Quiz: Which Musical Comedy Censor is More Unethical?
Two planned musicals, two official vetoes. Which was more unethical? Continue reading
Religious Tolerance Ethics: Con
A reasonable accommodation for an employee’s religion should not require that a business pass up legitimate income sources because that employee finds them offensive. Vegetarian baseball players don’t get to veto sales of hot dogs in the ballpark; religious sit-com stars don’t get to choose which TV commercials air during their shows, and veto the ads for mini-vibrators and that super-duper orgasm-launching lubricant. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Rep. Dennis Kucinich
I find Rep.Kucinich’s statement especially indefensible, because the degree of his presumably misstatement of the truth was completely unnecessary if his motives were good. Continue reading
The NPR Ethics Train Wreck
Ethics train wreck scholars take note: when an organization’s image and existence is based on multiple lies, an ETW is inevitable. Today’s lesson: NPR Continue reading
Ethics Quiz: “The Cabbie and the Jewelry”…Ethics or Pragmatism?
How do we know ethics had anything to do with what the New York cabbie did, returning $100,000 in lost jewelry? Was he being ethical, or was he just being pragmatic? Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “How Not To Promote Tolerance and Undersatnding of Muslim Culture
“This will certainly not promote tolerance, but in its own horrible way, it might promote understanding. On the one hand, all variety of men are capable of producing the sort of person who would sooner slay their significant other to avoid the shame of divorce. In a strange way, this just says that they’re just like anyone else.” Continue reading
How Not To Promote Tolerance and Understanding of Muslim Culture
Horribly brutal, gory, cruel crimes have way of making us look past important macro-ethical issues. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: Ethics Quiz: “The Cabbie and the Jewelry”…Ethics or Pragmatism?
Karl Penny puts the perfect topping on this post, about the praise being heaped on the NYC cabbie who returned $100,000 in jewels to an absent-minded fare, when he could have made a dash for the Bahamas. I obviously couldn’t say it better myself, because I didn’t. Continue reading →
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