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Ethics Dunce: Daily Kos Blogger “bal”
The Daily Kos blogger holds that if one receives a benefit in one's youth, it is hypocrisy to advocate in favor of reforming, reducing or ending that benefit years later. What does this mean in...
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Unethical Thought of the Month: Me
Where do unethical thoughts come from? Are they examples of creativity, themselves "thought experiments"? Are they randomly generated scenarios, like dreams? Are they subconscious hints of the beast...
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Biden’s China Gaffe
Joe Biden, representing the United States, voluntarily chose to endorse a program and policy that is a human rights outrage. Continue reading →
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Ethics Reading Assignment…
Some interesting ethics and morality posts from around the web. Continue reading →
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Ethics Hero Emeritus: Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011)
You probably never heard of Stetson Kennedy. I hadn't. He deserves better, because he helped take down the KKK at their peak. Continue reading →
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From Massachusetts: Proof That It CAN Happen Here…and Does; That It CAN...
We are not beyond corruption, and we can all do terrible things, unless we work hard to keep our ethics alarms in working order. Witness a trial in Massachusetts, which has shown that a school for...
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A Trivial But Vivid Case Study In Unethical Journalism
An indefensible example of evil journalism, unfortunately not unique to Boston sports coverage. Continue reading →
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The Strange, Seldom Told Story of Ethics Hero Emeritus, Albert Göring...
I only learned of the story of Albert Göring this week, and I am stunned by it. So much good, nobility and heroism goes on in the world that we never know about, and this story has so many lessons to...
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Ethics Quote of the Week: Eliot Cohen
If there is a silver lining to the President's Syrian Ethics Train Wreck, it is that it has provoked some perceptive writing and debate on the topics of leadership, character, and America's role in the...
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Six Questions Raised By A Horror Story I Wish I Had Never Read
What is the matter with the United States, that this, any of this, could happen? Continue reading →
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Unethical Quote of the Week: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Cal.)
Those who think she is a respectable leader must also think John Lennon was a acute analyst of history and international diplomacy. Continue reading →
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Unethical Quote Of The Millennium: Senator Harry Reid, Fick
Imagine the damage this wretched, vile man has done in the back corridors of power to the United States of America. Continue reading →
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“I think abortion is evil, but it is a necessary evil.” Discuss.
This blog doesn’t discuss evil very often because it is not a term appropriately associated with ethics. Evil is a concept related to morality. In an ethics discussion, I would take evil to mean...
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Weekend Comment of the Day #1: “The VW Scandal: Huge Consequences, Simple...
"To paint this as just a few evil blackhats gone wild is to miss the true nature of evil – it’s endemic in the culture, and that’s much scarier." Continue reading →
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Ethics Dunce: Petula Dvorak (And Introducing The New Ethics Alarms Term,...
It's not complicated, Petula, not at all. When you identify a system or an enterprise or a movement that is harmful and corrupt, don't support it, participate in it or strengthen it. Continue reading →
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Comment of the Day: “Ethics Quiz: Is This Question Easy?”
We cannot take everyone in the world who has a hard or threatened life elsewhere. This is simple economics. However, we can do better than we have at what we can and should be doing. We just have to...
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