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Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room
It is better, safer and more honest to admit that executing bin Laden violates basic and established principles of fairness, respect for life and justice, but that in his very special case, it was the...
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Comment of the Day: “Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room”
Commenter Margo Schulter delivers a powerful, passionate, eloquent absolutist rebuttal to my post asserting an ethical defense of Osama bin Laden's targeted killing/assassination/execution by U.S....
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Comment of the Day: “The Jaundiced Eye of Noam Chomsky”
Reader Trafford Gazsik comes to the defense of Noam Chomsky Continue reading →
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“The Mentalist” Ethics: Patrick Jane Osamas “Red John”
Tonight marked the season finale of “The Mentalist” on CBS, and by happy coincidence, Bruno Heller’s odd-ball murder mystery drama ended with its hero, Patrick Jane (played with brio by the excellent...
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Annals Of The Ethics Incompleteness Theorem: The Snuggle House And “The Dress...
The truth is that rules can never control conduct sufficiently to overcome those who are determined to undermine them, in the absence of a community and cultural consensus that the conduct is unethical...
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Case Study: The Botched DP, Baseball, Ethics Evolution, and “Getting It Right”
So umpires are still struggling to lose the traditional attitude that their calls should not be challenged by colleagues. Managers and players feel that they should know what the process is, and that...
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A Baseball Integrity Conundrum: The Non-Hit That Is Always Called A Hit But...
When a no-hitter is not a no-hitter when it should be a no-hitter except that the rules say it isn't, shouldn't it be ethical to make sure it is a no-hitter? WHAT??? Continue reading →
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Abortion, “The Fly” and the Ethics Incompleteness Theorem
I was watching the Jeff Goldblum remake of "The Fly" last night, and rather than being properly horrified by Geena Davis's nightmare of giving birth to a yard long fly larva, and found myself wondering...
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