Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesCheating or not? | Granted, and…. Cheating or not? As the school year ends and many of you have student papers due, here’s an ethical challenge related to such assignments, put to the New York Times Ethicist last Sunday: When … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are NO bystanders. NO-ONE can claim innocence or that it’s “not my problem”. Here is one place where things really are black and white. If you do nothing to help the victim, YOU ARE HELPING THE ABUSER. When I … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Shadow Scholar – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The currency of the Academy is supposed to be honesty. That is still true. Unfortunately, it has never been the reality – although I remain convinced that … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s thoroughly disgusting when a University fires someone who has worked for them for more than 35 years. Their ‘crime’? Getting sick as a result of being abused at work. Despicable! (note: I am NOT talking about Mount Royal). What … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI put this together some months ago, but in light of recent events, I felt like posting this now. The U of C is going through another round of DEEP cuts. The primary reason for the cuts, says Weingarten, is … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteApparently it is in China – if you get caught. Chinese academia ghost-writing ‘widespread’ This BBC article claims that “More than $100m (£63m) changes hands in China every year for ghost-written academic papers, according to research by a Chinese university.” … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesMany people seem to believe that every natural place should be available for recreation, and that all other uses should defer to them. People who try to raise animals ethically and naturally repeatedly come under fire, but I don’t see all of North America going vegan any time soon, so eventually, the ONLY way left to raise animals for meat will be through factory farms.
Continue readingApproximate Reading Time: 13 minutesMy husband and I had dinner with a friend last night whom we both like and respect a great deal. We talked about many things, among them our attitudes about the human use of animals. My friend is a vegan, and we’re not.
I struggle with the moral issues involved and so I continued to think about this after dropping our friend off at his hotel. I try very hard to be logical and reasonable in my arguments. I suspect I may have not succeeded entirely on this one. But neither did my friend.
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