If you took an ethics break this last weekend of February, here’s your Ethics Alarms make-up assignment:
- Times columnist Charles M. Blow’s tweeted anti-Mormon slur and his paper’s apparent lack of interest in it prompted a reflection on current political correctness enforcement policies.
- A famous atheist has the integrity to admit that he’s really an agnostic.
- An ethics verdict on the President’s apology for the Quran burnings.
- Canada shows that its schools are even more hysterical about guns than ours are.
- Is treating chickens like Keanu Reeves really unethical?
- …and last but not least, sexy robot ethics.
A famous atheist has the integrity to admit that he’s really an agnostic.
That’s misleading. By the definitions being used, all athiests are agnostics.
Why was it considered news, then?
As I noted in the thread of the post, journalists who can’t attack the data found by Dawkins are attempting to impugn the messenger, however they can.
We don’t even have to speculate on whether the journalists simply didn’t understand what the words meant or whether they had mal intent.