Ethics Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/ethics/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:01:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Ethics Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/ethics/ 32 32 The Cost of Denying Conscience https://mind-at-work.com/the-cost-of-denying-conscience/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:01:57 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3618 For millennia the concept of conscience was prominent in virtually every religious and secular ethical system, though interpretations of its nature varied. Some defined it as an “inner voice,” but disagreed about what kind of voice—Desire? Discernment? Emotion? Reason? They disagreed, too, about whether the source of the voice is society, custom, God, or ourselves. [...]

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]]> O’Reilly’s “Potential Human Being” https://mind-at-work.com/oreillys-potential-human-being/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:33:42 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1437 When Bill O’Reilly used the term “potential human being” to describe a human fetus in 2011, Catholic Online (among other journals) quickly corrected him. However, he evidently didn’t get the message, because he continued to use the term. Four years later, on May 28, 2015, he showed a letter from a viewer objecting to the term [...]

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]]> Moral Dilemmas in Washington https://mind-at-work.com/moral-dilemmas-washington/ Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:01:05 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=774 A moral dilemma is a situation in which a choice must be made between conflicting courses of action, each of which is morally supportable. The key word is conflicting—meeting either obligation necessitates violating the other. In other words, the person is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Figuratively speaking, of course. By [...]

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]]> Don’t Raise The Debt Ceiling- LOWER It! https://mind-at-work.com/dont-raise-debt-ceiling-lower/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:27:17 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=237 Does the debt ceiling debate seem familiar? It should. From the Carter administration to the Obama administration the debt ceiling has been raised 39 times. Each time the increase was opposed but then passed by the opposition party. It’s like a political variation on the silent movie drama in which the poor damsel says, “I [...]

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]]> Our Current Plague Of Nuttiness https://mind-at-work.com/current-plague-nuttiness/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:00:29 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=427 Every day’s news brings multiple illustrations of the plague of nuttiness that is afflicting America. A case in point is the government’s handling of the Benghazi affair. On September 11, 2012, the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya was attacked, four Americans including the ambassador were killed and ten others were injured. The administration blamed the [...]

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