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Ethics refers to a set of norms and morals that govern human action and inform what we ought or should do. There are three forms of ethics, namely, virtue ethics, duty based ethics and consequentialist ethics.

Generally stated, a discussion of ethics assumes a moral standard, which is used to determine the morality of one’s actions. For example, actions that conform to the standard are moral actions. Actions that do not conform to the standard are immoral actions.

The basis of ethics is to establish a system of motivations and deterrents, which factor heavily in controlling and directing human desire. Individuals should desire to do moral actions and should be deterred from doing immoral actions. Thus, ethics prescribes proper moral action and dissuades individuals from desiring to act immorally. 


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  • Brazilian doctor accused in almost 10,000 abortions found dead


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    Sao Paulo, Dec 1 (EFE) A Brazilian anesthetist accused of involvement in almost 10,000 illegal abortions was found dead in her car after apparently committing suicide, authorities said Monday.The body of Neide Mota Machado, whose medical license was revoked earlier this year, was found Sunday afternoon by a farm ...
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  • Free Sportsman Guide: Firearm Safety, Hunter Ethics


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    Grab this free Sportsman Guide on Firearm Safety and Hunter Ethics. “Budweiser and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have teamed up to bring you this valuable guide to firearm safety and hunter ethics .  It contains useful information ranging from hunter-landowner relations to proper ...
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  • Tiger Woods & Privacy


    A Philosopher's Blog — Authority Authority: 130
    Image via Wikipedia Tiger Woods recently made the news for a bad drive-a crash in his SUV . While such accidents are not unheard of (I once accidentally backed over a friend’s mailbox), this incident has gotten considerable news coverage for two reasons: first, it involved a celebrity . Second, there is ...
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  • Local Motors: a business model of our times


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    Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source , one on open source mobility run from the University of Rotterdam called c,mm,n , and one on a company called Local Motors . I ...
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  • Limited liability: the ultimate cause of moral hazard


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    The Guardian has noted: The Dubai government refused to guarantee the huge debts built up by its conglomerate Dubai World, dashing investor hopes that the latest episode in the global financial crisis might be swiftly resolved. In an interview on local television, the director general of Dubai’s department of ...
    7 hours ago

  • Co-branded Debit Cards: The Smart Financial Tool


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    Co-branded debit cards are powerful tools for companies to attract new customers and to cement their relationship with existing ones. Co-branded card programs allow companies to fortify the company-customer relationship through regular buyer plans and cross-selling strategies.
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  • Obama and the CRUddites of Britain


    The Saloon dot net — Authority Authority: 139
    The CRU Crew of liars and scientific frauds of the UK have been driving the climate fraud campaign for years. They shaped the corrupt and ridiculous IPCC UN report, designed to empower the Green Corruptocracy as the new international Ruling Class. Now that they have been finally, and devastatingly exposed to the ...
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  • Government response to Professor Sube Banerjee’s report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia


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    Title: Government response to Professor Sube Banerjee’s report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia Skinny: Government response to Professor Sube Bannerjee’s independent clinical review of the use of anti-psychotic drugs.  This was conducted in recognition of widespread ...
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  • The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia: Time for action. A report for the Minister of State for Care Services


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    Title: The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia: Time for action. A report for the Minister of State for Care Services Skinny: Clinical review of the use of anti-psychotic drugs conducted in recognition of widespread concern about the over-prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, and as part of ...
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  • FT investigating allegations of advertising paying for editorial


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    The Financial Times is investigating allegations that advertisers have paid for articles to be printed as editorial in its FT Business specialist magazine publishing division.reports Media Guardian this morning. It follows a letter sent by the NUJ which the paper says contained the following "It has come to our ...
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  • I can’t tell you how disgusted this makes me….


    tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority Authority: 137
    It’s another example of people in the mortgage and real estate world who took advantage of someone who didn’t understand the system.   And they aren’t the ones who paid the price, the borrower is….. We’ll be better off when all of those types who are motivated soley by profit have been run out of the ...
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  • Who "peer-reviews" the "peer-reviewers"?


    Where Are My Keys? — Authority Authority: 141
    Mark Steyn breaks it down : The trouble with outsourcing your marbles to the peer-reviewed set is that, if you take away one single thing from the leaked documents, it’s that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the “peer-review” process. When it comes to promoting the impending ecopalypse, the ...
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  • Hypocrisy, party of one..


    Where Are My Keys? — Authority Authority: 141
    Dude flies 440,000+ miles in 19 months , including some loooong weekend travel, and he gets to decide how I live my life? In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual " carbon allowance ...
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  • Ethics and Morality :: RE: Putting Ourselves In The Hot Seat


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    Author: Homicidal Pacifist Subject: . Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:35 am (GMT -5) I havent that much patience, Dewey; which I guess is a sure sign of my immaturity; or perhaps I am right in the assertion that that human and animal suffering should not be put on the backburner in the hope that someone else and/or ...
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  • Ethics and Morality :: RE: Age Disparity In Relationships: Does Love Have Restrictions?


    Philosophy Discussion — Authority Authority: 175
    Author: Homicidal Pacifist Subject: . Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:08 am (GMT -5) The older can potentially guide the younger and the younger can potentially revitalize the older. _________________ "If Ignorance Is Bliss, Then Knock The Smile Off My Face!" - Rage Against The Machine
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  • Words, just words..


    Where Are My Keys? — Authority Authority: 141
    President Obama in March, 2009 : Now, this order is an important step in advancing the cause of science in America. But lets be clear: Promoting science isnt just about providing resources -- its also about protecting free and open inquiry. Its about letting scientists like those who are here today do their jobs, ...
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  • This continues to amaze me..


    Where Are My Keys? — Authority Authority: 141
    If the underlying data was falsified (or omitted opposing data), and if the computer models are shown to have used bad code, how can we believe the conclusions of the studies?   Great points made in the comments section of the video: Did Gibbs actually say that "there is no real scientific basis for the ...
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  • Thanks goodness for the Net..


    Where Are My Keys? — Authority Authority: 141
    The WSJ lays out what was done in the name of "science": The panel, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, now faces the inconvenient truth that it relied on scientists who violated scientific process. In one email, the Climate Research Units director, Phil Jones, wrote Michael Mann of ...
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  • Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite: ACORN and the James Rainey Saga


    The Saloon dot net — Authority Authority: 139
    The hidden-camera videos by James O‘Keefe and Hannah Giles detailing the inner workings of the taxpayer-funded leftist racket known as ACORN have set off a storm of journalistic controversy, but not in the way one might think. Rather than engaging the substance of the stories first made available on Big Government ...
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  • Adam Baldwin: ‘Climategate’- Good News World! A Crisis of Faith is Ended


    The Saloon dot net — Authority Authority: 139
    “[Marxist theories provide] a set of slogans that were supposed to justify and glorify communism and the slavery that inevitably goes with it… [although] the ideological fantasies of this movement … were no more than a nonsensical expression of the whims of spoilt middle-class children… the movement did ...
    11 hours ago

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