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Featured Commentary
The Airplane and the Cell Phone: A Real Life Ethical Dilemma
From the Institute for Global Ethics, Rushton Kidder’s excellent ethics website, the Scoreboard learned about a fascinating story that had slipped past its radar.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight from Austin to Dallas had been charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to end a cell phone call when flight attendants demanded that he do so. Joe David Jones was talking to doctors about end-of-life options for his father, who was expected to die any second. Attendants told police on the ground that Jones had also become profane and “uncontrollable.”
Ethics and the Talking Billboards
A memorable scene in the Steven Spielberg thriller “Minority Report” showed Tom Cruise’s character walking past commercial signs and displays that spoke directly to him, addressing him by name and customizing their message to personal information, accessed by a retinal scan. It was a creepy scene, and like disturbing scenes in earlier futuristic films such as “A Clockwork Orange,” reality is getting uncomfortably close to emulating it.
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11/30/2008
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6/9/2008
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6/9/2008
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The Airplane and the Cell Phone: A Real Life Ethical Dilemma |
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4/29/2008
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12/23/2007
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Global Warming Ethics, Part Two of Three: The Offset Illusion |
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10/25/2007
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Global Warming Ethics: Part One of Three. Convenient Misrepresentations |
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10/2/2007
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8/20/2007
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6/11/2007
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5/12/2007
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2/17/2007
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Trapped by Failure of Courage and Ethics: The JetBlue Flights |
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1/29/2007
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1/11/2007
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12/4/2006
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Real Life Ethics Trilogy, Part 2: Wireless Internet Freeloading |
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11/30/2006
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9/9/2006
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8/6/2006
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7/19/2006
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6/29/2005
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7/27/04
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6/21/04
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5/23/04
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5/8/04
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Wonkette (May 2004 Ethics Hero) |
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3/16/04
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2/11/04
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Research Censors |
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2/11/04
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Diet Wars |
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