Ethics News!

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.

• 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&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

• This Inlander article raises interesting questions about how values enter into community planning and development. [1]

• 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.

• Prisoner Death case

• Lottery Privacy Case

• Trey Gowdy's retirement statement - Tribalism

• The Islands and the Whales

• 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.
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