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Featured Commentary
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.
Global Warming Ethics: Part 3 of 3. Ideology and Bias
During a televised GOP presidential candidates debate, now-vanquished contender Mitt Romney made an accusation: Senator John McCain did not espouse the “conservative position” on global warming. His statement was simultaneously nonsensical and alarming. The answers to the many questions surrounding global warming—the existence, extent and likely duration of it, its causes, what measures might be taken to counteract it and whether they would have any significant effect—are irrelevant to ideology or political identification. They depend upon data, unbiased analysis and reasonable conclusions based upon fact. This is an issue that has to be addressed based on what is, not on what people want to believe; on science, not philosophy. If the sky is blue, it’s blue; don’t tell me that the official position of my political party, church or activist group is that the sky is orange.
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Guest Commentary: "Kid Nation," Jamie Lynn Spears, and Kids for Sale |
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11/28/2007
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The John Fitzgerald Page Saga: The Insufferable vs. the Unethical |
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The King Memorial Controversy: A Response to The Ethics Scoreboard |
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Corruption in the Culture: What Official Plagiarism Says About Washington, D.C. |
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Rules, Birthdays, and Johnny Pesky: The Ethics of Drawing the Line |
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The Ethical Failure of Bill Cosby: Right Message, Wrong Messenger |
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Real Life Ethics: CVS Collision and the Ethics of Confrontation |
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11/30/2006
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Real Life Ethics Trilogy, Part 1: Quiznos, Competence, and Tuna Salad |
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10/27/2006
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A Capital Punishment Opponent Takes Aim and Misses the Target |
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The Ethics of Changing History: Of Crockett, the Titanic and "One Small Step" |
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The Case of the Grieving Waiter: "Miss Manners" Gets It Wrong |
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The Casual Reagan Mourners (June 2004 Ethics Dunce) |
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Lynndie England (May 2004 Ethics Dunce) |
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Dan Parisi (May 2004 Ethics Hero) |
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Martha |
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3/04
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William Coates (March 2004 Trivial Liar) |
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2/16/04
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Cheats Amuck |
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2/12/04
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Gay Marriage |
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2/11/04
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NAACP |
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