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I know: this is rather a broad topic for a twine, but I couldn't find another that was a good collecting point for many stories, ideas, and issues that surround us every day. Post here items that raise questions, shine a light on questionable behavior, be academic or practical. I'm not necessarily looking for theoretical ethics, but sometimes hypothetical questions can help to find practical answers. Applied ethics, situational ethics, relativism, utilitarianism, pragmatism, etc... bring it on!
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Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives | h+ MagazineEight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives "Future Flesh" is squatting on your plate. Are you nervous? Stab it with a fork. Sniff it. Bite! Chew, swallow. Congratulations! Relax and ruminate now because you're digesting a muscular invention that will massively impact the planet. ...
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OpEdNews - by Jim Hightower: Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to HellNovember 19, 2009 at 15:32:01 Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell By Jim Hightower ( about the author ) Page 1 of 1 page(s) For OpEdNews: Jim Hightower - Writer "Repent," the preacher cried out, startling those who heard him. This was no street ...
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A Kinder Gentler CapitalismIt's official. Japan's long recession has finally ended. The small but highly productive nation has suffered enormous economic set-backs over the past two decades. To pull themselves out of the downturn, the Japanese business community and its government have followed a consistent and socially ...
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Playing the Health Care Lottery - Well Blog - NYTimes.comPlaying the Health Care Lottery In the short story “The Lottery,” the author Shirley Jackson describes a small farming community in 1940s America, as picturesque a scene as anything you’d find in Norman Rockwell. It’s “Lottery Day,” and families gather in the June sun, the adults chatting ...
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Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes? : NPRDo Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes? A A November 19, 2009 Second of a two-part report On a cold November night in Patchogue, Long Island, about 200 immigrants, activists and clergy cluster around a small stage. Hanging over an arrangement of candles in the shape of a peace sign, a ...
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1Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience - Boing BoingAgree, and me too. In fact by joining a record club, one could often get newly released LPs for as little as $5.JDP added 24 hours ago
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2Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience - Boing BoingIf the recording industry spent as mush effort trying to sell music via the internet, at affordable prices, as they currently spend trying to keep people from pirating it, they might actually find a workable business model. I'm old enough to remember buying 45s (i.e., 45rpm analog vinyl records) ...Geoffrey Ames added 36 hours ago
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2Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies | GeekDad | Wired.comTalk about the road to Hell being paved with good intentions... ouch!Geoffrey Ames added 3 days ago
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15Woe, Superman?I think a likely result of serious/severe longevity increases, once they more than overcome the tendency for the birth rate of modern industrial nations to fall below the replacement level, is to become possibly the first major impetus to get space travel (and colonization) right. But of course, ...tj dreves added 4 days ago
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2Woe, Superman?While I'm all for 'practical ethics', at least 'theoretically', I am, when it comes to tampering with 'humanness', concerned about that old nuisance: unintended consequences. Certainly, before we start engineering people to live even twice as long, we better implement some better strategy for ...Geoffrey Ames added 4 days ago
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