Thursday, August 29, 2013

If You Tell a Lie in a Forest, and No One Hears, Is It Really a Lie?

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I don't know, but good luck finding a forest where no one else can hear you any more. Or see you, on the branch-mounted spycam. On the...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Another "Surprising" Headline about Conflicts of Interest

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Today's New York Times has a brief article by Robert Pear with one of the most un-surprising headlines I can remember: "Doctors W...
Monday, August 12, 2013

It Take More than Not Doing Wrong to Do Right

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We often think of ethics as "doing the right thing". In other words, we think of it as resisting the temptation to do wrong: someb...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Does a Traffic Ticket Mean You're More Inclined to Fraud? Maybe....

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I'll be the first to admit that I have been known to exceed posted limits on the highway. By how much? Hmmm. Maybe I'd better lay cl...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

If Greed is Good, Is Speed Even Better?

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To coin a phrase: The early bird catches the worm. Being first with the news is an obvious advantage, and not just if your livelihood come...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Want to Get Paid? Pay a Fee.

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How many more ways can we find to make it seem reprehensible to be poor? The working poor used to be admired for their grit and perseveran...
Friday, June 21, 2013

The Toxic Legacy of Tax-Avoidance Schemes

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As an ethicist, I suppose I shouldn't indulge in schadenfreude -- the delight in someone else's misfortunes -- but then, I'm hu...