Tag Archives: values
Ethical Quote of the Week: Angels Pitcher Jered Weaver
There are indeed more important things in life than money, and when one has “enough” by any reasonable standard, seeking still more is piggish, wasteful, and shallow. Jered Weaver understands. Continue reading
The Saga of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt: Life in a Culture That Values Lies
A culture, or a significant part of it, that celebrates Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton or even briefly, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, is losing its values at a dangerous rate. Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are warnings. I don’t feel particularly sorry for them, but they do frighten me. Continue reading
Wanted, Desperately Needed, and Lacking: Professionals, Adults and Values in the Media
This is what happens when a vital democratic institution requiring integrity, self-control, professionalism, ethics and a sense of responsibility is in the control of second rate minds with third rate values. Continue reading
Ethics Malpractice from “Dear Margo”: The Tale of Witchy, Tubby and Sue
A shallow questioner who dumped her boyfriend wants to unravel his new relationship now that he’s gone from fat to fit. And an advice columnist is happy to help out…. Continue reading
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
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More on “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”
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
Abuse of Power and Press Intimidation At The White House
ncreasingly, it seems to me, a favored tactic of stalwarts, in the media and out of it, of the Obama administration is to try to silence critics rather than rebut them. This takes many forms: intimidation by labeling all criticism as proof of racism; using distorted definitions of civility to induce self-censorship, as with the “No Labels” effort and the attacks on Sarah Palin in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting; denying appropriate news coverage to stories illustrating the Administration’s copious missteps and shortcomings; and even calls for regulatory censorship of talk radio and Fox News on the theory that they are harmful and dangerous. This trend is disturbing. For the President of the United States to preside over efforts news media intimidation is more than disturbing; it is frightening. Continue reading
Ethics Quote of the Day: Lori Palatnik
There are, fortunately, not many instances when it is appropriate to cheer a death, but the death of Osama bin Laden was one. Continue reading
