Mitch Sullivan, one of my twitter friends, posted a link to a post by the Australian Christian Lobby, about the ethics classes that happily look like thy will go ahead. I was moved to comment, but aince I doubt my comment will make it through moderation I will reproduce it here: Mitch, I...
I’ve had my belief in human decency reinforced today. I was contacted through this website by someone who had bought a media player on craigslist. The seller had stated it was from a lost and found bin. When it arrived the buyer found it full of family and business photos – including some hotel...
I read today (via Wikileaks) that Conroy’s Internet filter is on hold. Well, actually: A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. So that means? With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are unlikely to be...
Understanding your choices, pt. 2 In a previous post I wrote about what I termed “Oracular Ethics” – after the Oracle in the Matrix films, who tells Neo: “… you’ve already made the choice. Now you have to understand it”. As I indicated in that post, this is really how I tend to think...
Last week I wrote about the four principles of medical ethics (as described by Beauchamp and Childress): Beneficence, Non-maleficence, Autonomy, and Justice. I described that as the simple end, and over the next few posts I want to explore why they’re a bit too simple, and discuss some other frameworks. Today, there’s just a...
