Michelle Malkin reminds us of what Jill Greenberg was up to before she shot The Atlantic cover of John McCain. If realizing that tormenting children is wrong is at the foundations of our moral sense, then her history indicates that she is someone with no moral sense at all.
Archive for the ‘ethics’ Category
I Knew the Name Sounded Familiar
Posted in Politics, ethics, tagged Greenberg, McCain on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hollar on Happiness
Posted in ethics, liberty, tagged happiness on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brian Hollar reflects on happiness and Iceland:
While it is true that people in wealthier countries are happier than people in poorer countries, there is only weak correlation inside those countries between happiness and wealth. (In other words, if you live in a wealthy nation, earning a lot of income probably won’t buy you a whole [...]
Hillary’s History
Posted in Politics, ethics, tagged ethics, Hillary on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dan Calabrese tells of Hillary’s history on the Watergate investigation, where her supervisor fired her and refused to write her a letter of recommendation—because of a pattern of lying and unethical behavior. (HT: Powerline and Ed Morrissey)
An Ethical Dilemma
Posted in ethics, tagged dilemmas, ethics on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A tragic, real-world dilemma (HT: Eugene Volokh):
Alton Logan doesn’t understand why two lawyers with proof he didn’t commit murder were legally prevented from helping him. They had their reasons: To save Logan, they would have had to break the cardinal rule of attorney-client privilege to reveal their own client had committed the crime. But Logan [...]
Why I Can’t Vote for a Democrat
Posted in ethics, national security, terrorism, tagged ethics, interrogation, terrorism, trolley problems on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today the Democrats of the House and Senate approved restricting CIA interrogation techniques to those outlined in the Army Field Manual. Power Line correctly notes that this means that the Democratic Party simply is not serious about the national security of the United States.
Over the last 36 hours, Congressional Democrats have again demonstrated a [...]
Why Republicans are Happier
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, Politics, ethics, liberty, tagged diversity, Equality, freedom, happiness, Politics, responsibility on February 10, 2008 | 61 Comments »
The Washington Post reports:
Most studies show that wealthy people are marginally happier than poor ones. People with pets or children are no happier than those without. People with active sex lives are — surprise! — happier than those without. No single morsel of happiness data, though, is more intriguing than this: Republicans are happier than [...]
Should men pay higher taxes than women?
Posted in Distributive Justice, Equality, economics, ethics, tagged Equality, gender, taxation on February 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Spain’s Popular Party has proposed that women receive tax breaks for… being women! Since parties to its left are likely to pile on board, Spain will soon have a tax system that discriminates on the basis of gender. There’s a radical feminist argument for this, but there’s also a utilitarian argument based on [...]
Groundhog Saturday: Six More Weeks of Winter
Posted in ethics, tagged good, Groundhog Day, holidays on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow yesterday, predicting six more weeks of winter. (It’s about 80° today where I am. But I don’t hold that against Phil; it’s currently 31° in Punxsutawney.)
When I was young, Groundhog Day was my favorite holiday. (It’s also the subject of one of my favorite movies.) Why? [...]
“No Remorse”
Posted in ethics on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two teenage girls in Florida rob a Girl Scout selling cookies, taking $167. They were caught, but see nothing wrong with what they did. “We went through all that effort to get it, we got all these charges and we had to give the money back. I’m kind of pissed,” one said. [...]
Roger Kimball on Will Smith and Utopianism
Posted in ethics, philosophy, tagged Aristotle, Augustine, ethics, human nature, philosophy, Rousseau on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Roger Kimball has intriguing reflections on the utopian impulse and the underlying thought, stemming from Rousseau, that one can reshape human nature—all from thinking about Will Smith’s remark,
“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and [...]
