Tag Archives: “the ends justify the means”

October 4, 2011

Comment of the Day: “America’s Untouchables, Continued…”

“Every time I read about the creation of “child-safe” zones, I just shake my head.” Continue reading →

Filed under Family, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", Arizona, crime, discrimination, family members, Huachuca City, human rights, persecution, sex offenders

October 3, 2011

America’s Untouchables, Continued: Persecution in Huachuca City, Arizona

Huachuca City, Arizona has approved an ordinance banning registered sex offenders from all public facilities, including schools, parks, libraries, pools, gymnasiums and sports facilities. As discussed in an earlier post, the willingness of municipalities to continue to oppress and stigmatize law-abiding citizens who the justice system has deemed fit to re-enter society is ignorant, cruel, and unconscionable. And it is getting worse. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Incompetent Elected Officials, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", Arizona, discrimination, Huachuca City, human rights, Mayor Byron Robertson, persecution, sex offenders

September 22, 2011

Comment the Day: “Exposing America’s Dungeons…”

Dwayne N. Zechman makes trenchant observations and raises difficult questions in his comment to the post, “Exposing America’s Dungeons: The New York City Bar Report on Supermax Prisons.” Continue reading →

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Filed under Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Minority Report", "the ends justify the means", cruel and unusual punishment, human rights, New York City Bar, penal system, prison reform, prisoners, prisons, supermax prisons, torture

September 18, 2011

Comment of the Day: “America’s Untouchables”

The Comment of the Day is one of many excellent comments received regarding “America’s Untouchables,” prompted by a Tennessee law banning former sex offenders from public libraries. Continue reading →

7 Comments

Filed under Citizenship, Comment of the Day, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", children, Constitutional rights, human rights, libraries, revenge, sex offenders, Tennessee

September 16, 2011

America’s Untouchables

America is not supposed to have an “untouchable” class, but that is what fear and callousness are creating out of former sex offenders, in Tennessee and elsewhere. Continue reading →

35 Comments

Filed under Citizenship, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", human rights, Knox County, libraries, Mayor Tim Burchette, prison rape, prisoners, sex offenders, Tennessee

August 29, 2011

5 Things PETA Doesn’t Understand About Ethics

PETA has registered the domain name peta.xxx and plans to launch a pornography website in December that “draws attention to the plight of animals.” What the organization doesn’t understand about ethics is staggering, amusing, or tragic, depending on your point of view. Continue reading →

9 Comments

Filed under Animals, Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Public Service, Philanthropy, Charity, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", animal cruelty, cognitive dissonance, credibility, exploitation, integrity, PETA, pornography

August 28, 2011

A Damning Role Model For Wisconsin’s Public Union Protests

The ethical line between Fred Phelps’ anti-gay protesters who disrupt the funerals of soldiers killed in action, and the self-righteous union protesters opposing Wisconsin’s governor Scott Walker’s budget balancing efforts has thinned to the vanishing point. Continue reading →

9 Comments

Filed under Citizenship, Education, Government & Politics, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society

Tagged as "by any means necessary", "the ends justify the means", bigotry, Brother Bob Smith, collateral damage, Gov. Scott Walker, Messmer Catholic Preparatory School, protests, vandalism, Westboro Baptist Church, Wisconsin public unions

June 3, 2011

“Grow Your Own Marrow Donor” Ethics and Consequentialism: The Ayala Family Saga

A child was conceived not out of love, or because she was wanted for whom she would become, but for what benefits her cells would confer on another daughter. A human being was exploited and used to further the welfare of another. An infant was used as a medical donor without her consent. This is not merely the “ick factor,” our reflex revulsion at strange, new uses of science. This is conduct that violates core ethical principles about human dignity. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Bioethics, Family, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Ick factor", "the ends justify the means", "The Island", Abe Ayala, abortion, absolutism, Anissa Ayala, autonomy, cancer, civil rights, clones, cloning, Consequentialism, corruption, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, ethics, fetus, human dignity, human exploitation, informed consent, leukemia, Marissa Ayala, Mary Ayala, medical ethics, Meredith Viera, mothers, organ donors, organ harvesting, Osama bin Laden's death, respect, slavery, The Today Show, torture, utiltarianism

June 3, 2011

Ethics Quote of the Week: The Washington Post Editors

So sympathetic has much of the media, and a lot of ethics alarms commenters of good ethical pedigree, been to these as–self-indulgent, publicity-seeking, First Amendment-trivializing grand-standers (in part because the park police may have been excessively harsh to one of the arrested demonstrators, though that is irrelevant to the dancing issue) that I feared I had finally entered the dreaded ethics Bizarro-world where all my instincts would seem backwards. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Ethics Quotes, Etiquette and manners, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "the ends justify the means", abuse of power, assholes, Bizarro World ethics, civil disobedience, civil rights, civil rights protests, Code Pink, consideration, conspiracies, dancing at national monuments, demonstrations, ethics, Facebook, fairness, First Amendment, flash mobs, free speech, government suppression of free speech, intimidation, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Mary Brooke Oberwetter, Richard Barnes, right to assemble, selfishness, Thomas Jefferson

May 31, 2011

Dancing With Thomas Jefferson: How Assholes Make the Law Spoil Life For Everyone

Now we have a little less freedom at national monuments, thanks to the determination of some people to abuse it. Continue reading →

31 Comments

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Citizenship, Etiquette and manners, Government & Politics, History, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Religion and Philosophy, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "a man's home is his castle", "Glee", "the ends justify the means", "two wrongs don't make a right", abuse of power, assholes, Barnes v. Indiana, Bill Clinton, civil rights, civil rights protests, Common Law, consideration, conspiracies, dancing at national monuments, David Letterman, demonstrations, ethics, fairness, First Amendment, flash mobs, Fred Phelps, free speech, funerals, government suppression of free speech, intimidation, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Mary Oberwetter, Richard Barnes, right to assemble, right to resist unlawful entry, selfishness, Sen. Bob Packwood, Sen. John Ensign, sexual harassment, sexula harssment laws, The Alamo, Thomas Jefferson, violence, Westboro Baptist Church

Tag Archives: “the ends justify the means”

Comment of the Day: “America’s Untouchables, Continued…”

America’s Untouchables, Continued: Persecution in Huachuca City, Arizona

Comment the Day: “Exposing America’s Dungeons…”

Comment of the Day: “America’s Untouchables”

America’s Untouchables

5 Things PETA Doesn’t Understand About Ethics

A Damning Role Model For Wisconsin’s Public Union Protests

Ethics Quote of the Week: The Washington Post Editors

Dancing With Thomas Jefferson: How Assholes Make the Law Spoil Life For Everyone

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