Tag Archives: New York City
Ethics Hero: Actor Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling doesn’t just play heroes in the movies—-he knows how to be the real thing. Continue reading
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Daily Life, Ethics Heroes, U.S. Society
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
Should It be Illegal to Buy Counterfeit Designer Goods?
How disturbing the so many among the public are willing to excuse inexcusable conduct on the grounds that, in essence, they just want to keep doing it. Continue reading
Teachers Unions: Not Unethical, Just Uninterested in the Public Welfare
If the teachers union is really interested in students and schools, let them make it possible to get rid of loafers, fools, incompetents and scam artists in the teaching ranks quickly, so they hurt as few children as possible while wasting as little money as possible. Continue reading
Filed under Education, Government & Politics, Professions, U.S. Society, Workplace
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
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
Mayor Bloomberg—Charting New Vistas in Ego, Shamelessness and Hypocrisy
The Mayor’s lack of integrity, respect for process, and shame, not to mention modesty, is mind-blowing. He’s special, all right…but not in the way he thinks. Continue reading
Filed under Government & Politics, Leadership
The Ethics of Teacher-Student Facebook Friending
Sometimes what appears harmless and benign at first glance starts looking inappropriate and unethical after we learn more about it. Social networking media has been teaching this lesson with alacrity over the last year, and we now have another example that will be making some friends of mine re-evaluate their Facebook friend list…I hope. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “The Cabbie and the Jewelry”
Prodigal Commenter Penn re-entered the ethics fray with two anecdotes about ethics and Japanese culture in reaction to the Ethics Alarms quiz, “The Cabbie and the Jewelry.” This was the second COTD to be inspired by that story of the ethical—or pragmatic—cabbie who rescued $100,000 worth of jewelry left in his cab by a careless fare. Continue reading →
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