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Illinois’s Death Penalty Ban: Defensible Decision, Indefensible Reasoning
If one is going to abolish an important law enforcement tool, the official justification for it ought to be coherent and persuasive, and not just facile rhetoric. That, unfortunately, is what...
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Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room
It is better, safer and more honest to admit that executing bin Laden violates basic and established principles of fairness, respect for life and justice, but that in his very special case, it was the...
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Comment of the Day: “Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room”
Commenter Margo Schulter delivers a powerful, passionate, eloquent absolutist rebuttal to my post asserting an ethical defense of Osama bin Laden's targeted killing/assassination/execution by U.S....
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Comment of the Day: “The Jaundiced Eye of Noam Chomsky”
Reader Trafford Gazsik comes to the defense of Noam Chomsky Continue reading →
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“The Mentalist” Ethics: Patrick Jane Osamas “Red John”
Tonight marked the season finale of “The Mentalist” on CBS, and by happy coincidence, Bruno Heller’s odd-ball murder mystery drama ended with its hero, Patrick Jane (played with brio by the excellent...
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Last Meal Ethics
Is Texas unethical to remove the ancient tradition of the condemned man's last meal from the capital punishment process? Continue reading →
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Ethics Verdict: The New York Daily News WDBJ Shooting Front Page Isn’t...
Today's controversial Daily News front page was good journalism. Continue reading →
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