I am Jewish, and I can say this. Nazi-like behavior is unacceptable no matter who does it. Jews have no more right to be disgusting and criminal than anyone else. There’s a certain ultra-rightist segment of the American Jewish population that is completely intolerant of any criticism of Israel–just as there are certain ultra-rightist Americans [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethics: General'
Rightist Jewish Thugs Attack Tikkun Founder’s House
May 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Diversity, Ethics: General, Social and Economic Justice, censorship
Tags: Democracy·dissent·goldstone report·judge richard goldstone·nazis·rabbi michael lerner·terrorists·tikkun·vandalism·vandals
Manipulative Biofuel-Industry “Survey” Guaranteed to Create Biased Results
March 22nd, 2010 · View Comments · Energy & Sustainability, Ethics: General, Marketing Techniques and Philosophies, Politics, Transparency vs. Secrecy, propaganda
I am totally sure this so-called survey will be used to trumpet the citizens of Massachusetts’ supposed stance in favor of biofuels and against the proposed law. While the law’s definitions could be sharpened, I actually feel that eliminating nuclear power and large-scale wood-burning biomass plants from being counted in the progress toward a Green economy is a GOOD thing.
Tags: biofuels·green energy·manipulative surveys·renewable energy·survey bias
Should Ethics Be Based in Philosophy…Or Practice?
December 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Ethics: General
I wanted to share my response in a LinkedIn discussion around ethics (I don’t know if that link will work if you’re not a member of the group). It started when someone asked participants to list a few ethics books they’d found helpful. I posted several titles, culled from the archives of my Positive Power [...]
Tags: books·ethics·philosophy·practical·praxis
Ben Franklin: Genius and Contradictions
November 27th, 2009 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics: General, Publishing, Transparency vs. Secrecy, propaganda
While visiting Minneapolis, I took in the opening day of the new Ben Franklin exhibit at the Minnesota History Center in downtown Saint Paul. I’ve long ben a Franklin fan. To me, his far-reaching curiosity, big-picture viewpoint, multiple interests, creativity, willingness to question authority and even make fun of it, media and persuasion skills, dedication [...]
Tags: abolitionism·Ben Franklin·Benjamin Franklin·contradictions·diplomacy·ethics·invention·morality·science·slavery
YouTube and Our Perception of Cross-Species Friendship: WIll It Change Society?
September 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Ethics: General, Web 2.0/Social Media
Here’s an odd thought: Could viral videos actually change the culture? What are the implications, long-term, for our culture in the widespread visibility of cross-species animal friendship, animals figuring out difficulties and solving a way around them, animals responding to music—or even playing music—, etc.? When you see “enemy” animals forming friendships, what does it [...]
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Shel Horowitz Discusses Success with Business Ethics
August 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Business Ethics, Ethics: General, Marketing Techniques and Philosophies
Corruption Roundup: Many ‘Stories, One URL
August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Business Ethics, Ethics in Government, Ethics-International, Ethics: General
Exactly how did Bernie Madoff steal his billions? Why are Halliburton’s hands so dirty? What happened with corruption cases in the rebuilding of Iraq? Following a link from EthicsWorld’s e-newsletter, I came to a single URL that has multiple stories on corruption: http://www.ethicsworld.org/publicsectorgovernance/corruptioninvestigations.php#sec. This is what we’re up against, those of us who believe in [...]
Google: Plusses and Minuses/Compare with Bing/Privacy Issues
July 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Ethics: General, Marketing Trends/News, Transparency vs. Secrecy, Web 2.0/Social Media
Perry Marshall has a really good article about online privacy concerns, the Google experience yay and nay, and Google’s first real competitor in general search–Bing. It’s getting a lot of comments, including this one from me. I discuss not only transparency vs. secrecy, but also the Google user experience, talk about the USP (Unique Selling [...]
Tags: 1984·bing·dystopian novels·fahrenheit 451·google·perry marshall·privacy·transparency
The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
March 27th, 2010 · View Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, Ethics: General, General Commentary, Politics, propaganda
I’ve long wondered why the people who so strenuously object to socialized medicine have no problem with other socialized services, such as police and fire protection (on the government monopoly model) and education (the “public option”/private competition model). This bit of satire makes the point better than I could. I was hoping to be able [...]
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Tags: socialism·socialized public services·teabagger