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  • I happened to see a customer steal a mobile phone charger from a retail store.  She was not caught because she hurried through the sensors at [...]

    Witness to shoplifting

    March 28, 2012
  • In some countries, begging rings raise money by putting captive children on the street to beg from strangers.  The children are usually orphans [...]

    Giving to child beggars

    March 28, 2012
  • In reality, when making an ethical decision, do people really apply the generalization, utilitarian, and virtue tests to help them finalize their [...]

    Psychological egoism

    April 4, 2011
  • Is going to war and killing humans ethical? Contributed by DH. To comment on this dilemma, leave a response.  For anonymity, omit your email [...]

    Ethics of war

    March 30, 2011
  • The famous philosopher René Descartes advocated the vivisection of animals (dissection while the animal is alive) and practiced it himself.  He [...]

    Descartes and animal suffering

    January 11, 2011
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted in 1971 by psychologist Philip Zimbardo, placed college students in make-believe roles of prisoner and [...]

    Stanford Prison Experiment

    January 3, 2011
  • The battleship Northern Spirit is torpedoed, and its crew launch the few lifeboats that remained undamaged.  The captain is aboard of the  [...]

    Lifeboat ethics

    January 2, 2011

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