ethics issues EU shows how to do a dodgy surveyAnne Fleck | 16 May 2013 |tags: EU, homophobia, human rightsThe EU's largest-ever survey of hate crimes and discrimination against LGBT people claims that they labour under a terrible burden. But the figures don’t support the conclusions.  Your cheap clothing has a high priceKarl D. Stephan | 13 May 2013 |tags: Bangladesh, engineering ethicsThe tragic collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh exposes the immorality of the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.  Terrorism triangle in BostonJennifer S. Bryson | 06 May 2013 |tags: terrorismComplex rather than single causality is the norm, not the exception, for terrorism.  Playing with fire in West, TexasKarl D. Stephan | 30 April 2013 |tags: business ethics, engineeringAmmonium nitrate fertiliser seems like a simple material, but it has a history of causing devastating explosions which have killed hundreds of people.  Why should we care about Boston?Michael Cook | 24 April 2013 |tags: Boston Marathon bombings, Christianity, media, solidaritySome Australian journalists have asked why so much coverage was given to American deaths and so little to deaths in Iraq. Are they right?  The law and Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr | 18 April 2013 |tags: civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr, morality and law, natural lawFifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr was sitting in a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, for marching against segregation. From his cell he wrote a stunning analysis of what constitutes a just law.  Burying Thatcher: why celebrating death is still wrongPatrick Stokes | 17 April 2013 |tags: death, ethics, Margaret Thatcher, obituariesOur dealings with the dead are just as ethically governed as our dealings with the living.  The road to same-sex marriage was paved by RousseauRobert R. Reilly | 15 April 2013 |tags: Aristotle, philosophy, Rousseau, same-sex marriageAt the heart of the debate over same-sex marriage are fundamental questions about who men are and how we decide what makes us flourish.  The empathy gapJohn Tirman | 02 April 2013 |tags: Afghanistan, drones, IraqWhere is the sympathy for the civilian victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?  The shaky science behind same-sex marriageInstitute for Marriage and Public Policy , Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass | 26 March 2013 |tags: same-sex marriage, same-sex parenting, US Supreme CourtThe case rests squarely on sociology and psychology. How reliable can this be, ask two distinguished scholars.  What money can’t buyMichael Cook | 26 February 2013 |tags: book reviews, commodification, market economy, utilitarianismWhat is the proper role of money and markets in a democratic society? How can we protect the priceless goods in moral and civic life from being bought and sold?  Hellfire, morality and strategyGeorge Friedman | 20 February 2013 |tags: drones, ethics of warfare, USThe use of drones may be legal under international war, but it is leading the US into unknown territory.  Bill Gates and his mixed up global health agendaCarolyn Moynihan | 15 February 2013 |tags: Bill Gates, polio eradication, population controlBill and Melinda Gates want to stop polio and also the growth of third world population. One of these campaigns could be undermining the other.  Mines of tearsKarl D. Stephan | 15 February 2013 |tags: engineering ethics, US, workplace safetyFor two decades, Navajo men worked in a New Mexico uranium mine, unaware of the dangers of radiation. There was an 88% mortality rate -- but the case is almost unknown.
 Christopher Dorner LAPD, all-American heroIzzy Kalman | 14 February 2013 |tags: bullying, Christopher DornerWhat turned an anti-bullying crusader into a murderous avenger?  Mandate of the PeopleTom Odhiambo | 01 February 2013 |tags: book reviews, entrepreneurship, Kenya, politics, povertyPolitics can be dirty, but it will be cleaner if decent people get involved.
 A case for bureaucratic clawbackDenyse O'Leary | 01 February 2013 |tags: animal welfare, justice, subsidiarityWhen a fight over a cat goes to federal court it is time to call on a Catholic principle.  “We will never surrender”Jennifer Roback Morse | 22 January 2013 |tags: definition of marriage, Rhode Island, same-sex marriageA marriage advocate offers a state legislature about to redefine marriage some advice and predictions.  The dead-end values driving euthanasia advocacyMargaret Somerville | 21 January 2013 |tags: Canada, euthanasia, relativismA Quebec government report endorsing euthanasia rests on a moral relativism that has already failed the young.  Harvard Munch: when liberty becomes bondageMichael Cook | 10 January 2013 |tags: Harvard, John Stuart Mill, sado-masochism, utilitarianismOne hundred and fifty years after J S Mill's famous book on Utilitarianism, the heirs of his philosophy are embracing nihilism.  A more than nominal problemKarl D. Stephan | 13 December 2012 |tags: abortion, artificial intelligence, Holocaust, philosophyBy tempting us to define our own reality, nominalism can throw a whole culture out of whack.  The third rail of feminismMichael Cook | 11 December 2012 |tags: Africa, female genital mutilation, feminismWhy isn't the media interested in the facts about the controversial practice of female genital mutilation? Page 1 of 1 : subscribe donate
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