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| Question posted on May 15, 2013; 1 response |
| I have an equal opportunity to do 2 jobs, and must choose between them, and can only choose 1. The first job would help other people and help humanity to some degree but I would enjoy it far less... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on May 2, 2013; 1 response |
| If cause suffering is bad and life is in part suffering, procreate is inherently bad?... |
| Children, Ethics Show |
| Question posted on May 2, 2013; 1 response |
| What does allow scientist to make moral and ethical judgements? I always thought that science is purely neutral and objective(yes I know this is an illusion, even if we destroy all bias and all string pullers(government, private/commercial sector) still even... |
| Ethics, Science Show |
| Question posted on May 2, 2013; 1 response |
| I'm willing to donate about $100 a year, out of my pocket, to help relieve worldwide hunger. But, If I had the opportunity to vote on a proposed new tax in my country that would collect an average of... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response |
| Am I a hypocrite if I support gun control while owning guns myself?... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response |
| In his "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason", Kant argues that it is possible for people to become moral by following the example of Jesus Christ. How then would he comment on Abraham's actions during the Binding of Isaac?... |
| Ethics, Philosophers Show |
| Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response |
| Do you think there is too little applied ethics being studied and researched in academia? I think analytic philosophy still has not recovered from the ideas of logical positivism. If ethics is still a worthwhile field of study, why then... |
| Education, Ethics Show |
| Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response |
| I am confused about Aristotle's virtue ethics as it applies to Aesop's fable of the boy who cried wolf. Since he was telling the truth the second time, is it actually the townspeople who are behaving immorally by ignoring him?... |
| Ethics, Philosophers Show |
| Question posted on April 25, 2013; no responses |
| If an HIV positive person engages in unprotected casual sex with a partner whom he has no other attraction to and does not tell this partner that he is HIV negative (more importantly the partner also did not ask), is... |
| Ethics, Sex Show |
| Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response |
| Why do so many atheists think that other atheists "ought" to be a humanist, or at least care about animal rights, environmental protection, left-wing politics, and so on? Isn't this both a psychological cognitive dissonance and a philosophical naturalistic fallacy?... |
| Ethics, Religion Show |
| Question posted on April 18, 2013; 1 response |
| I sent a small donation by cheque to someone specifically for cancer research and left payee line open for them to fill name of project in. It now transpires cheque was made payable to that persons partner. I suspect this... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on April 11, 2013; 1 response |
| Analogous to freedom of speech, one supposes that everyone is entitled to express their opinions concerning the character of any person. However, my personal view is that it is reprehensible for a group of people to indulge in an... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on April 4, 2013; 2 responses |
| You are a single male, a highly attractive female asks you to engage in a sexual relationship with her. However, they are already in a long-term, albeit unstable relationship. Do you accept or decline the offer? I have declined on the... |
| Ethics, Sex Show |
| Question posted on April 4, 2013; 1 response |
| Are we responsible for forgetting things? It certainly doesn't seem like it, since we don't seem to have control over what we forget, but we are often held to the standard of always remembering all pertinent facts.... |
| Ethics, Mind Show |
| Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response |
| If you are at a conference and somebody behind you says something that you feel is offensive is it okay to take their picture and post that to the Internet so that a lot of people know that somebody said... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response |
| A lecturer I met a few weeks ago said to me (among other things) that up to this point no-one has managed to disprove Kant's famous claim that 'we should always treat others as ends in themselves and never as... |
| Ethics, Philosophers Show |
| Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response |
| Are 18 year olds capable of consenting to be in pornographic productions?... |
| Children, Ethics, Sex Show |
| Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response |
| What is evil, and what is good? Do you believe is changes depending on where you go? Tim Age 11... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response |
| I'm against Designer Babies. Is there any rule in ethics that makes it wrong? We can think of many problems with it, like kids who have better genes will bully others, and the parents get to choose talents that might... |
| Biology, Children, Ethics Show |
| Question posted on March 15, 2013; 1 response |
| Is it wrong to fall in love and have a relationship with your first cousin even if you did not grow up together and met as adults? There are many taboos about this kind of relationships and some cultures... |
| Ethics, Love Show |
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