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| + | *Let's try to look out for news stories with ethical dimensions and quickly identify them. You might post a link or just report your item in class. | ||
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| + | :*Political movement toward Federal decriminalization of Marijuana. | ||
:*James Shaw, Jr., Waffle House Hero. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/us/waffle-house-hero-james-shaw.html] | :*James Shaw, Jr., Waffle House Hero. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/us/waffle-house-hero-james-shaw.html] | ||
:*New therapies for opiod and heroin use offer the prospective of “vaccines” which block the effects of these highly addictive drugs. Should users be required to take vaccines? | :*New therapies for opiod and heroin use offer the prospective of “vaccines” which block the effects of these highly addictive drugs. Should users be required to take vaccines? | ||
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:*Example from FIRE website: [https://www.thefire.org] of new attitudes toward liberty of thought and conscience. | :*Example from FIRE website: [https://www.thefire.org] of new attitudes toward liberty of thought and conscience. | ||
Revision as of 20:03, 23 April 2018
Ethics News!
- Let's try to look out for news stories with ethical dimensions and quickly identify them. You might post a link or just report your item in class.
- Political movement toward Federal decriminalization of Marijuana.
- James Shaw, Jr., Waffle House Hero. [1]
- New therapies for opiod and heroin use offer the prospective of “vaccines” which block the effects of these highly addictive drugs. Should users be required to take vaccines?
- Example from FIRE website: [2] of new attitudes toward liberty of thought and conscience.
- What are the ethical issues behind the raid of the president's private attorney's office?
- Details from a local radio story on the local congressional rep race: McMorris-Rogers (R) vs. Brown (D). supporters on each side show predicted MFT triggers.
- More chemical attacks on children, women, and male civilians in Syria.
- ongoing teacher strike in Oklahoma raises distinct ethical claim. (Not just homo economicus.)
- This might not seem like ethics news, but it does figure in our reading today: NYRB review article: Raised by wolves
- The New York Times just published an article stating that 87 million people's information was improperly shared during the 2016 election. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/mark-zuckerberg-testify-congress.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
- This Inlander article raises interesting questions about how values enter into community planning and development. [3]
- Consider attending an Ethics Bowl team scrimmage this month. More details from Dr. Maria Howard (howardm@gonzaga.edu)
- Police shootings of unarmed black men. The Sacramento case of Stephon Clark.
- Hero in French terror attack.
- "Catch and Kill" journalism in the case of Karen McDougal.
- Cambridge Analytica news. Consider hypotheticals.
- "Fairness" in trade. (Will come up in globalization discussions.)
- More k-12 student walkouts
- West Virginia teachers' strike offers example of inequity aversion, ethics in negotiation.
- Learning about the views of Jordan Peterson, who claims a right of conscience to not use new gender pronouns. See his wiki page.
- Quick change in gun control views. Today's student walkouts seem to be making a values statement.
- The dehumanizing effect of scripted call center interactions.
- Trey Gowdy's retirement statement - Tribalism
- Weinstein Lawsuit holds up sale of troubled company - group resp
- The idea of Baby bounds: giving all youths money to start out with as young adults.
- [4]
