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Ethics, NARAL, and the Miscarriage Art Project

It is as certain as anything under the sun: cynical and intellectually dishonest policy positions eventually lead to outrageous acts that expose them. For even the most indefensible and illogical positions are taken seriously by somebody. Yale Art major Aliza Shvarts has accepted completely the most cynical and indefensible contentions of the far pole of the women's rights movement. She believes that a fetus has no more value on the scale of human life than a bunion. So she devised an "art project" that documents a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking drugs to induce multiple miscarriages. Her exhibition features video recordings of the miscarriages, as well as preserved collections of her blood.

Once your gag reflex has subsided, consider what is really going on here.

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Ethical Analysis Toolkit: Definitions, Principles and Concepts

A large percentage of ethics discussions break down over disputes over definitions and the lack of common terms and concepts. This section contains some useful tools to permit analysis, discussion, and argument to go forward, and to provide a quick reference for readers when one or more of these appear in the Ethics Scoreboard.

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The Purposes and Goals of
The Ethics Scoreboard

From Jack Marshall, President, ProEthics

The Ethics Scoreboard exists because, to be blunt, national media, academia, law, the arts, government, and the church have been timid, garbled, and worst of all, boring in their efforts (such as they are) to apply our society's ethical standards and principles to the daily events that bombard us. The results of this failure are apparent: a proliferation of ethics-related incidents, a lack of coherent discussion regarding them, and in too many cases, public apathy.

The Ethics Scoreboard intends to counter this environment by doing four things:

  • Providing some simple tools for ethical analysis.
  • Identifying current events and issues that raise important ethical issues
  • Using those tools to make a straight-forward assessment of these
  • Talking about them.

This site will not attempt to be exhaustive, but will focus on raising ethical issues and observations that are not appearing elsewhere.

 

 

     

When Corrections Aren't Enough

Corrections are fine, but when a newspaper publishes an article that is almost 25% incorrect, inaccurate and out-of-date, they are also insufficient to erase the stain of what is a spectacular demonstration of unethical levels of carelessness, sloppiness, and disregard for the facts.

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A Big Deal: Stop the "Ex-Blogs"

The New York Times reports that increasing numbers of spurned spouse of both sexes have turned to blogging about their travails on so-called "ex blogs," making certain that everyone with a modem can learn what a lying, cheating, irresponsible, sexually dysfunctional creep their ex- or soon to be ex-life-partner-to-love-and-to-cherish is.

» Read this commentary »

Also new this week: A Liar, a Dunce, a Hero and an Unethical Site

EASY CALLS
Quick Takes on
Current Events

~ Casserolegate
~ Senator Obama's flag pin
~ Kathleen Turner


5/3/2008

Ethics, NARAL, and the Miscarriage Art Project

4/29/2008

When Corrections Aren't Enough

4/29/2008

A Big Deal: Stop the "Ex-Blogs"

4/24/2008

Ethics and the Conflicted Campaign Advisor

4/24/2008

Ethics and the Conflicted Campaign Advisor

4/24/2008

The Ethics of an Olympic Boycott

4/20/2008

George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Clinton, and the Permanent Conflict of Interest

4/13/2008

A Salute to Duty and Fortitude

3/31/2008

Global Warming Ethics: Part 3 of 3. Ideology and Bias

3/30/2008

Question and Answer Ethics: Cheney and Chelsea

3/23/2008

After the Speech: Obama and Rev. Wright, Part II

3/21/2008

Fake Memoir Ethics: Of Seltzer, DeWael, and Wolves


» Read more commentary »

Ethics Heroes
Dunce's Corner


April 2008
- John McCain

March 2008
- Arizona Diamondbacks


April 2008
- Lynddie England

March 2008
- Tony Kornheiser
- Donald Fehr
- Marina H.S. Administrators
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Client Number 9

 

Ethics Presentations

If your company, association, organization, club or school is interested in hosting an entertaining, provocative and interactive presentation by Mr. Marshall on current ethics issues, call 1-703-548-5229. The Spring and Summer 2008 schedule is now being set.



Suggest an item for the Scoreboard

Please send suggestions regarding issues, news stories, unethical web sites and other topics for discussion on The Ethics Scoreboard to ProEthics President

 

     

 

The Global Warming Series

The David Manning Liars of the Month

The fictional David Manning, a film critic invented by the Sony Corporation, stands for the dubious proposition that as long as your self-serving lie is in a trivial arena (usually entertainment) where dishonesty and misrepresentation are commonplace, or is a lie that nobody believes, it isn't reprehensible. All intentional public deceptions do harm, however, so The Ethics Scoreboard regularly recognizes The David Manning Liars of the Month, and urges the public to make them come clean…

Liars for April 2008 :

Liars for March 2008 :

Unethical/Ethical Website of the Month


 

Publications

From the Scoreboard's Founder
"The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow"


Edited and with an Introduction by
Edward J.Larson and Jack Marshall

The courtroom oratory, essays and speeches of America's greatest lawyer raise fascinating ethical and social issues, while giving us a window into one of the most provocative minds the nation ever produced.

"His debates over the death penalty and the nature of evil, the existence of the soul and the literal truth of the Bible -- these seem central to the way America still thinks about itself. "History repeats itself and that's one of the things that's wrong with history," Darrow wrote. This book makes the gnarly and theatrical litigator seem very much our contemporary."    ~ The Los Angeles Times

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