(Photo: Roman Boed)This is absolutely fascinating!The classical ethical dilemma goes something like this:A train is about to crash into a bus full of people. If you do nothing, it will do so and kill them. If you switch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/10/Ethical-Question-Should-a-Self-Driving-Car-Kill-You-to-Save-Other-People/(Image: Lucasfilm)It is trendy to argue that, in Star Wars, the bad guys are actually the good guys and vice versa. This is the geeky version of #SlatePitches--deliberately contrarian takes for the sake of argument that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/30/Argument-The-Destruction-of-Alderaan-Was-Completely-Justified/NPR lays out the scenario:You find a time machine and travel to 1920. A young Austrian artist and war veteran named Adolf Hitler is staying in the hotel room next to yours. The doors aren't locked, so you could easily st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/10/Men-are-More-Likely-Than-Women-to-Travel-Back-in-Time-to-Kill-Hitler/In the Wall Street Journal, Christopher Caldwell argues that the revered Calvin and Hobbes was America's most profound comic strip. He quotes the late political scientist James Q. Wilson, the inventor of the Broken Windo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/10/Calvin-and-Hobbes-Was-Our-Only-Popular-Explication-of-the-Moral-Philosophy-of-Aristotle/(Photo: Alma)Hypothetical: We breed a species of cow smart enough to consent to a contract. It agrees to give us milk. Is this milk now vegan?— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) August 13, 2014 Zach Weinersmith, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/14/A-Fascinating-Ethical-Dilemma/World Science Festival published a two-part articl... ...science of the atom bomb. Today, they look at the ethics of the Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons, and th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/21/The-Long-Shadow-Of-The-Manhattan-Project/Two of the most popular superheroes work in journalism. Peter Parker (Spider-Man), is a photojournalist with the Daily Bugle of New York City. Clark Kent (Superman) is a reporter for the Daily Planet of Metropolis. It's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/07/Argument-Spider-Man-and-Superman-Were-Very-Unethical-Journalists/(Photo: Elliott Brown)You're standing on a footbridge overlooking a train track. A train is coming down that track. It is about to hit and kill five people.A very heavy man is also on the bridge. If you push him off the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/01/Using-a-Foreign-Language-Affects-Your-Ethical-Reasoning/Terry J. Davis was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, Wednesday on a charge of theft by unlawful taking. University of Louisville police report he is accused of stealing a textbook called Resolving Ethical Issues and tryi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/28/man-shoplifts-book-on-ethics/Is Clark Kent, AKA Superman, a nice guy? Not if yo... ...thical problems: When it comes to journalistic ethics , Mr Kent is not so super after all. He regularly...
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