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The Fireman, the Cheater, and Media Muddling
In two recent ethics stories, the media picked the wrong victims and the wrong villains. Surprised? Continue reading →
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Ten Lessons from the “Dog Wars” Debate
The "Dog Wars" Android phone app is apparently down for the count, the victim of too many complaints, threats and accusations that it was evil and irresponsible and promotes real, live dog-fighting,...
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Is Corporate Philanthropy Unethical? No, But It’s Important to Ask the Question
An intrepid blogger suggests that conduct everyone thinks is good is really unethical. That's the way it's done, and in the best tradition of ethics. Assuming that conduct, any conduct, is right based...
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Ethics Challenge: Two Mothers, Young Love and Deception
A friend with a teenaged daughter has an ethical problem to solve. Did I give her the right advice? Continue reading →
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Comment of the Day: “Two Mothers, Young Love and Deception”
Lianne Best, who writes a weekly newspaper column about the challenges of a working wife and mother, weighs in with the alternative point of view regarding my post about a friend's handling of her...
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The Selfish Brother, the Stranded Passengers, and the Key To Ethical...
An ethics lesson from Carolyn Hax and an ethics hypothetical, both illustrating the same secret of effective ethical problem-solving. Continue reading →
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Addendum: James Taranto And The Consequences Of Unethical Presidential...
Credibility is the practical result of integrity: that is the ethical virtue President Obama's handling of this matter betrayed. Continue reading →
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Harvard’s Black Mass: An Ethics Problem With No Answer
As an exercise in futility, try applying any ethics problem solving model to Harvard's fake Black Mass. Continue reading →
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Child Care Ethics And Leashes For Toddlers: CNN and Its Viewers Flunk An...
It is constantly amazing to me that journalists so seldom identify obvious and critical ethics issues in the topics and events they cover. Take child leashes, for example. Please. Continue reading →
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On Liberals, Dignity, Dogs, Signature Significance and Toddlers On Leashes
Leashing one's child can be just a lazy choice made with no ideological content at all, of course, but I am beginning to think it may be signature significance for those who defend it by saying that...
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Americans Opine On Abortion: Thank You, USA Today, Now I Know Why We’re Doomed
Thank you, USA Today. This was illuminating. Continue reading →
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The Unethical French Animator, the Mammalian Duck, Dysfunctional Ethics Alarms
This is a trivial episode, to be sure. The societal problem the comments reveal, however---the inability of a majority of the population to make ethical distinctions and tell right from wrong-- is...
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Possible Tools Of Ethical Analysis: Strange Emotions
There may be some useful ethical analysis tools buried here. Or not... Continue reading →
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Rationalization #58: The Ironic Rationalization, or “It’s The Right Thing To Do”
Introducing the latest addition to the Ethics Alarms Rationalizations list. Continue reading →
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Carolyn Hax Sides With Bobby Darin, And Dazzles With Her Ethics Advice Again
Hax simultaneously pin-points what a biased and self-centered analysis misses, while still giving proper weight to the competing objectives in search of a fair and responsible result. Continue reading →
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Presenting The First Ethics Alarms Readers’ Challenge!
Can you dissect this jaw-dropping puff piece? Continue reading →
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And The Winner Of The First Ethics Alarms Readers Challenge Is….
The lateness of this announcement is embarrassing, and I apologize to all. Continue reading →
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Ethics Quote Of The Month: Philosophy Professor Peter Boghossian
Presenting: an excellent tool for enhanced ethical analysis. Continue reading →
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Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month: President Barack Obama
Can we agree that the loved ones of the 86 civilians killed by sarin have good reason to think that Obama's masterstroke was a miserable and predictable failure? Continue reading →
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Ethics, Motives, Killing With Kindness, “Amadeus” And Related Matters
On a thread about the hysterical doom-sayers in response to the US’s exit from the Paris accords on climate change, one dedicated defender of progressive orthodoxy, lacking a genuine rebuttal for the...
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