Commentary
Is It Unethical to Cut Jobs? Seven Questions for the CandidatesIf you’re as troubled as I am by the dog-eat-dog spectacle of Republicans blasting each other for closing down companies and eliminating jobs, here’s a plan. Bring the candidates to St. Croix. Let them absorb last week’s sudden announcement that Hovensa, the island’s largest private employer and its only industry, is shutting down one of the world’s largest refineries after 45 years of operation. Then ask them a straightforward ethical question: Is this right or wrong?…
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Survey Measures Public’s Trust in Organizations with Washington Influence
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What They're Saying
Wrong Policy“It’s the wrong policy to have. He’s not going to pay more than the law requires, and I don’t fault him for that in the least. But I do fault a law that allows him and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that’s about half what the average person [...]
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Congress Backs Away from Antipiracy Bills After Massive Internet ProtestCongressional leaders put two major antipiracy bills on hold last week after opponents rallied on the internet, raising political and ethical questions about how far the government and private firms should go to protect intellectual property….
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Relativity“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”
– Albert Einstein (German-born U.S. physicist and Nobel prize winner, 1879-1955)
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