Applied Ethics Category
A Few Thoughts and Opinions on Decisions
Posted on April 4, 2021
The action of making free decisions through free will on matters that affect one’s well-being is a core component of liberal democratic societies and what makes them so compelling and desirable for those without these freedoms. Whether it is the freedom to decide who to marry, what to do as a profession, all the way […]
Thomas Sowell
Posted on March 27, 2021
During the COVID pandemic I found out about Thomas Sowell and his ideas on economics and politics. As someone who has studied social and political ethics, I find his views very insightful and generally agree with much of what he says. “Nothing is easier than to take for granted what we are used to and […]
Ethics, Morality, and the Law
Posted on March 20, 2021
Hello Ethic Nutters, In search for a simple and easy to remember way to distinguish between Law, Morality, and Ethics, I found this interesting video from The Ethics Centre. I’m not sure who the presenter is but the clear definitions of Law, Morality, and Ethics are easy to follow, understand, and share. Enjoy! Regards, Andrew
Addressing Online Foreign Influencing and Foreign Criminals – An Armchair Ethics Post
Posted on March 13, 2021
Today is unlike any other in the ability of those living in other countries to communicate with individuals thousands of kilometers away, and to attack them through malicious actions including Spam, Phishing, and other harmful hacking tactics. The propensity of foreign actors to influence citizens in another country such as Canada and in negative terms, […]
How to know your decision was Good – An Armchair Ethics Post
Posted on February 15, 2021
Perhaps the main aim of the study of morality and ethics is to understand complex decision making processes and enable those involved to choose the most ethical and moral of actions from a choice of several. It is not sufficient or desired to have people know what is right or wrong but to choose, regardless […]
When Harm is Okay – An Armchair Ethics Post
Posted on December 12, 2020
The idea that we should not harm one another, and certainly not ourselves, can arguably be said to be a universally accepted normative claim. Certainly we know that it can cause both negative physical and emotional effects depending on the type of harm experienced. It could be said that this normative claim is in fact […]
A few thoughts on the novel corona virus pandemic
Posted on November 15, 2020
At the moment the globe is still wrestling with the novel coronavirus. There is now new found hope that the promise of a few vaccines that show efficacy in early analysis will come to fruition and life can return to a certain level of normalcy. Early on numerous Bioethicists were being consulted on the matter […]
CRISPR Founders Win Nobel Prize
Posted on October 10, 2020
Hi Ethic Nutters, As you may already know, Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have won the Nobel Prize for their work discovering and developing the method of CRISPR-Cas9. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nobel-prize-chemistry-2020-1.5753279 Congratulations! Andrew
Tolerance
Posted on October 6, 2020
It is very common to hear in discussions on tolerance the phrase “I’m tolerant of everything except intolerance”. This is often proudly stated affirming the most progressive liberalism. But is it liberal? I believe today such a view as tolerant of everything except intolerance is used primarily in normal discourse and media as a means […]
Lies, Lying, and Deception – An Armchair Ethics Post
Posted on September 10, 2020
There are many things people dislike with being lied to close to the top of the list. Not only is it deceptive and deceiving, but it does not provide the information that is sought. That being what actually is the fact of the matter. Everyone wants to know not some falsehood, but the truth. There […]
Andrew Milroy 