Be pro-social
The financial markets are in crisis. Banks, especially investment banks, are failing. The federal government is proposing to buy all of the bad decisions from the financial sector at a cost of “hundreds of billions of dollars” to you. Banks and governments have faced this same problem in the past, and they have responded with … Read more
On Monday, May 21, 2007, the Institute for Science, Law & Technology, at the Illinois Institute of Technology held a conference titled Who Owns Your Body? Legal and Social Issues in Michael Crichton’s NEXT. Lori Andrews, the Director of the Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, convened the conference … Read more
Lou Dobbs wrote an editorial on CNN.com recently that has some serious flaws. Dobbs: Democratic hacks embrace lunacy of amnesty. First, he spends most of the article calling people names. One has to read through all of the following before he stops insulting people and starts talking about the issue of illegal immigration.· “Democratic hacks”· … Read more
The US vetoed a UN Security Council (“UNSC”) resolution today. Generally that is not a big deal, but the specifics of the vote are suspicious. I think that situations like this damage US credibility (and the UN’s credibility). And I think it is much more damaging than scandals like the Oil-for-food bribing. The draft resolution … Read more
Table of Contents Excelsior College Ethics Exam Study Guide HomeI. Theory A. Basic theories B. Basic concepts C. Metaethics D. Moral deliberation II. PracticeSources II. Practice Social and personal issues (For example: personal behavior and relationships, including friendship, gender roles, privacy, and children’s rights; social and political issues, including censorship, aging, care of older persons, … Read more