Sentences with phrase «about ethical actions»

But Singer could be right about ethical actions without being right about whether those actions are always desirable.

As you will see in the example below, we are talking about ethical actions to gain traction in building a new business model.

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The incident also led to the resignation of vice president Joe Chernov and a pay cut for Halligan, «who knew about Volpe's actions but failed to bring the ethical violation to the board's attention in a timely fashion,» reports the Boston Globe.

The results revealed an asymmetry in the point at which they tipped: people required about four unethical actions to decide that Barbara had appreciably changed for the worse, but about six equivalently ethical actions to decide that Barbara appreciably changed for the better.

I won't even talk about why affirmative action is in place and how it can still be immoral and ethical.

The principle constituting this universal social practice is itself meta - ethical, in the following sense: the social action prescribed is explicitly neutral to all moral disagreement.4 On the face of it, one might object, a prescription of universal rights can not be explicitly neutral to all such disagreement because it is not explicitly neutral to disagreement about the principle itself.

The second subtle point that Maritain makes about practical intellect begins again with the fact that ethical and political action are always about existents.

The development in the civil rights movement of doubts about the full effectiveness of non-violence may represent in part a yielding to emotions less disciplined by ethical considerations; but it also reflects the discovery of some complexities of effective social action.

It is to face God instead of turning away from God; it is to change one's mind about life and to accept a new set of values for life; it is to effect, through the help of Christ, an ethical change in life, so that action and even thought become cleansed and purified.

In his Keir Hardie lecture, Miliband spoke of how the Labour movement was «built on ethical relationships that were forged between people through common action», and how Hardie embodied this: «Hardie was not a mechanical reformer who tried to bring about change through external control.

He defended his actions and refused to acknowledge that the prosecutors raised serious ethical questions about his activities, even as they said they did not have the legal grounds to accuse anyone of a crime.

There are, however, ethical questions to weigh about who should control the vehicle — the driver behind the wheel or the computer system that perceives potential danger in the human's actions.

When they asked people to role - play as deceivers and deceivees, the researchers discovered that participants felt better about paltering rather than lying by commission; they thought their actions were more ethical because they were technically telling the truth.

Spielberg has always been an expert at action sequences, and this qualifies, a cathartic moment for the characters (and the audience) after their hours of worry about the legal, economic and ethical consequences of printing the material.

You stressed that many topics can be rich with learning opportunity - much depends on how teachers help students to develop insight about how some aspect of the world works, see potential for action, ponder ethical issues and generally see opportunities to build relevant links to their worlds.

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

This question is designed to expose the ethical duty entailed by procedural justice to obtain consensus about waiting until uncertainties are resolved before taking action from those who will be harmed by any delay in taking action on the basis of uncertainty when delay will most likely increase the harms to those who are most vulnerable.

Why on earth Mr Lacis raves on about the ins and outs of the technical issues under discussion in the area of climate science / global warming when it is the issue of the ethical and legal aspects of Gleick's actions that are the immediate issue.

We republish this article with permission of the author because it contains a number of excellent points about the ethical dimensions of climate change particularly in regard to who should be understood to be responsible for the failure of the United States to take adequate action on climate change.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

N.Y. Co. 12/5/2014)-RSB-, Justice Melvin L. Schweitzer held that communications between the law firm's general counsel and a firm lawyer about ethical and malpractice issues in an ongoing case were not privileged, and thus had to be disclosed to the firm's client in a later malpractice action.

Through the presentation of scenarios that require the choice between competing interests or courses of action, I hope to solicit a discussion about what the participants consider ethical challenges, what behaviours they view as unethical, and their corresponding decision - making process.

Being ethical involves thinking about everyday actions and decision making, either individually or collectively, and responding with respect to all concerned.

The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning defines responsible decision making as «the ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on considerations of ethical standards, safety concerns, the realistic evaluation of the consequences that stem from actions and the well - being of self and others.»