An ethical dilemma is a situation that requires us to choose between an ethical course and one that fulfills a non-ethical want or need, like getting a promotion, winning the love of our soul-mate, or improving our financial status. Choosing the ethical option often has negative consequences, but it is still the ethical option. Thus it is more than a little disheartening to read the advice columnist who calls himself “The Ethicist” supporting the unethical option—the one that rejects an ethical value in favor of self-interest. Continue reading
“The Ethicist”
Farewell to the NY Times’ Ethics Blog
Well, the New York Times has spoken: it apparently doesn’t think ethics commentary blogs are worth the trouble: it quietly deep-sixed Randy Cohen’s “The Moral of the Story” blog less than a year after launching it. Continue reading
Sending the Shoppers to Gimbel’s
In the spirit of the fast approaching holiday season, to emulate one of the most famous ethical gestures in movie history—in “Miracle on 34th Street,” when Kris Kringle, working as a Macy’s Santa, sends a shopper to Macy’s arch rival because it has a gift in stock—but mostly because I’m traveling on business this morning and won’t be able to post any thing until late today, allow me to recommend “The Ethicist” Randy Cohen’s current blog posts, and his readers’ responses, about the obligation to vote. I’m 100% with Randy on this one, and I owe him this to help balance my criticism of his column in the past…and undoubtedly, the future.
And we’ll see how long it takes him to send his readers to Ethics Alarms.
