You are here: Fairness.com > Resources > Philosophy & Religion > Philosophy: General > Ethics/Morals/Fairness/Justice (conceptual)

Ethics/Morals/Fairness/Justice (conceptual)

Categories underneath Ethics/Morals/Fairness/Justice (conceptual):

• Ethics: Theoretical Approaches

Search only Ethics/Morals/Fairness/Justice (conceptual), and everything underneath:

Articles and Resources

79 Articles and Resources. Go to:  [Next 29]

Date	Fairness.com Resource	Read it at:
May 06, 2010	The Problem of Fairness, and David Ortiz: A Case Study QUOTE: Now it is a month into the 2010 season, and Ortiz is once again off to a terrible start....Should Ortiz be released for the good of the team? After less than 30 games and a hundred at bats? Is that fair? What is fair, in this situation? Well, it depends what you mean by “fair”...	Ethics Alarm
Sep 18, 2009	During Ramadan, fasting isn't for everyone QUOTE: Each year as Muslims across the world observe Ramadan... other members of the faith face the challenge and occasional awkwardness that comes with eating and drinking in public during daylight hours.	Los Angeles Times
Aug 06, 2009	Tomgram: John Feffer, Their Martyrs and Our Heroes QUOTE: Given the plethora of suicide missions in the Western tradition, it should be difficult to argue that the tactic is unique to Islam or to fundamentalists.	TomDispatch
May 29, 2009	A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality QUOTE: the issue of ethics and corporate social responsibility has taken on greater urgency among students about to graduate. While this might easily be dismissed as a passing fancy — or simply a defensive reaction to the current business environment — business school professors say that is not the case.	New York Times
May 28, 2009	Glowing Green Monkeys Illustrate Important but Controversial Advance QUOTE: Japanese researchers added genes that caused the animals to glow green under an ultraviolet light....But because the work marks the first time members of a species so closely related to humans have had their genetic makeup permanently altered, the research set off alarms that it marked a troubling step toward applying such techniques to people...	Washington Post
May 10, 2009	Taliban-Style Justice Stirs Growing Anger: Sharia Being Perverted, Pakistanis Say QUOTE: distinction between the Taliban version of Islam -- often described as narrow-minded, intolerant and punitive -- and what might be called the mainstream Pakistani version of Islam, which is generally described as moderate and flexible.	Washington Post
Dec 23, 2008	A Highly Evolved Propensity for Deceit QUOTE: Deceitful behavior has a long and storied history in the evolution of social life, and the more sophisticated the animal, it seems, the more commonplace the con games, the more cunning their contours. In a comparative survey of primate behavior, Richard Byrne and Nadia Corp of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found a direct relationship between sneakiness and brain size.	New York Times
Dec 12, 2008	Chaos Begets Chaos: A new study supports the controversial claim that people can be morally swayed by the state of their surroundings. QUOTE: It's not that good people turned bad, either. One goal simply surpassed another in importance. In the case of the mailbox, the desire for cash superceded the desire to behave appropriately, because others already hadn't.	Seed Magazine
Dec 08, 2008	Why dogs can sense fair play QUOTE: researchers suspected that other species that live together could be sensitive to fair play -- or a lack of one.	CNN (Cable News Network)
May 03, 2008	When Law Prevents Righting a Wrong (The Nation) QUOTE: The obligation to keep a client’s secrets is so important, they say, that it survives death and may not be violated even to cure a grave injustice — for example, the imprisonment for 26 years of another man, in Illinois, who was freed just last month.	New York Times
Apr 13, 2008	If You Think Your Taxes Are Unjust, Just Think Again QUOTE: Is the U.S. tax code fair? That question is always in the air at this time of year, as Americans grumblingly prepare their tax returns and politicians promise them gentler, or at least more equitable, tax policies in the future. But how do we decide what's "fair"?	Washington Post
Mar 21, 2008	Socialized Compensation QUOTE: The ongoing bailout of the financial system by the Federal Reserve underscores the extent to which financial barons socialize the costs of private bets gone bad...Compared to the cold shoulder given to struggling homeowners, the cash and attention lavished by the government on the nation’s financial titans provides telling insight into the priorities of the Bush administration.	New York Times
Feb 19, 2008	Defender in the Case of a Slain 7-Year-Old Girl Has His Admirers: Other Lawyers QUOTE: Whatever it takes to acquit Nixzmary’s stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, of one of the more notorious child murders in the city’s recent history, Mr. Schwartz says he is morally and professionally obligated to try it, if it is legal. In Mr. Schwartz’s ethical universe, the decision to represent Mr. Rodriguez has the air of a sacred mission.	New York Times
Feb 04, 2008	Some Campuses Decide Tobacco Company Money Is ‘Tainted’ QUOTE: [Officials at a Texas university] decided two months ago to draw a line, and refuse all tobacco money for student groups, as well as for faculty research. “What it came down to for us was the ethical dimension,” said [one official]. “The leadership of the school felt that in some sense it was tainted money, that it is money gotten from a product that is significantly harming people.”	New York Times
Oct 15, 2007	If It's Legal, It's Ethical…Right? QUOTE: The recent case of a TV crew allowing a woman to drive while drunk reminds us, when the law falls short, refer to the higher authority of ethics	BusinessWeek
Jul 15, 2007	Fair Taxes? Depends What You Mean by ‘Fair’ QUOTE: DO the rich pay their fair share in taxes? This is likely to become a defining question during the presidential campaign. At a recent fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton, the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett said that rich guys like him weren’t paying enough.	New York Times
Apr 27, 2007	Fairness QUOTE: Fairness is a funny illusion. It’s one of our most useful illusions, but it’s an illusion nonetheless.	Dilbert Blog
Dec 16, 2006	What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You? QUOTE: In the same world in which more than a billion people live at a level of affluence never previously known, roughly a billion other people struggle to survive on the purchasing power equivalent of less than one U.S. dollar per day. .... Philanthropy on this scale raises many ethical questions: Why are the people who are giving doing so? Does it do any good? Should we praise them for giving so much or criticize them for not giving still more?	New York Times
Nov 30, 2006	Mark McGwire, steroids, and the Hall of Fame QUOTE: from the moment [McGuire] was listed Monday as a candidate for pro baseball's hallowed hall, a buzz ensued over whether allegations that the former St. Louis Cardinal had used performance-enhancing drugs - including steroids - were serious enough or certain enough to keep him out.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 31, 2006	An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong QUOTE: Marc D. Hauser, a Harvard biologist, has built on this idea to propose that people are born with a moral grammar wired into their neural circuits by evolution. In a new book, Moral Minds (HarperCollins 2006), he argues that the grammar generates instant moral judgments which, in part because of the quick decisions that must be made in life-or-death situations, are inaccessible to the conscious mind.	New York Times
Sep 06, 2006	In Europe, a search for what defines the EU's moral identity: Newer EU members struggle to promote a more traditional morality. QUOTE: if EU member states started to turn their back on the European community and declare moral issues to be an internal affair, that would spell trouble, he says. "If, for instance, Poland were to introduce the death penalty and say, 'Well, we don't care what Europe feels about this because it's a matter of national sovereignty,' then I would be concerned."	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 06, 2005	Fame & Fortune: Bruce 'The Ethics Guy' Weinstein QUOTE: ...even if one files for bankruptcy and no longer has a legal obligation to repay one's creditors, that doesn't mean one does not have an ethical obligation to pay them back. When we borrow money, whether from a friend, relative or a bank, we're making a promise to re-pay our creditors. Even if bankruptcy laws allow us to wipe out our debt, the people who loaned us money did so in good faith and rightly expect to be re-paid.	Bankrate.com
Apr 01, 2005	How Animals Do Business QUOTE: Humans and other animals share a heritage of economic tendencies--including cooperation, repayment of favors and resentment at being shortchanged	Scientific American
Sep 12, 2004	Playing Favorites With Kids and Money QUOTE: Should siblings be treated equally? Ask most parents -- and children -- that question, and the immediate answer is typically: Yes, of course parents should treat each child the same. But ask again, in a different way, and the answer is rarely so clear-cut.	Wall Street Journal, The (WSJ)
Jul 30, 2004	The Fair Society Defined QUOTE: I wondered what theme might appeal to Americans of a large variety of backgrounds and act as a unifier, unlike themes that see the country as two nations or seek to serve some classes at the expense of others. Fairness came to mind because studies show that even small children have a sense of fairness.	Etzioni, Amitai
Jul 20, 2004	High Court Asked to End Executions Of Minors QUOTE: A broad array of individuals and groups... urged the Supreme Court yesterday to declare that it is unconstitutional to execute people for crimes they committed before turning 18. The United States is one of five countries that execute juvenile offenders...	Washington Post
Mar 18, 2004	A Fair Society: Responsibility for all, Responsibility from all QUOTE: A fair society is not merely respectful of rights. It is responsible for all, and expects all to be responsible.	Etzioni, Amitai
Sep 18, 2003	Genetic Basis to Fairness, Study Hints QUOTE: ...suggests that the monkeys have a sense of fair treatment and respond negatively when their expectations are violated...	New York Times
Feb 06, 2003	Poetic Licenses: Are "Choose Life" license plates free speech or state-sponsored infomercials? QUOTE: Has the state, by opening up license plates as a forum for private speech, incurred a constitutional obligation to allow speakers of every viewpoint equal access to that forum?	Slate
Jan 20, 2003	Who Will Bear the Burden? QUOTE: ...competing ideals of tax justice. One says that taxes shouldn't penalize success; the other says people should pay their "fair" share.	Washington Post
Jan 17, 2003	Women speak out against 'sexism' in the Kirk QUOTE: The Church of Scotland is facing a growing backlash from women in its ranks amid accusations that it suffers from institutional sexism.	Scotsman News
Oct 20, 2002	Mission Impossible QUOTE: ''A Bed for the Night'' explores the dangers of engagement: the overreach, confusion, and sheer hubris that occur when organizations violate neutrality in the name of higher, and perhaps unachievable, ideals.	Boston Globe
Oct 09, 2002	Buildings donated by 'corrupt' CEOs face name shame QUOTE: But now, those big donors have tarnish around their names. Some of them are in jail, some are indicted and accused by the government of being crooks. Should those names be sandblasted off the walls?	Law.com
Sep 18, 2002	Blair Calls for Wealth Redistribution QUOTE: Tony Blair today used a pre-conference speech to promise to "redistribute power, wealth and opportunity" to combat poverty and deliver public services.	Guardian Unlimited
Sep 01, 2002	Early Deliberations: A developmental psychologist investigates how children think about fairness and exclusion. QUOTE: Thus children could judge exclusion based on gender or race as legitimate because it confirms stereotypic norms, or they might view it with indifference. Alternatively, extensive research shows that fairness judgments emerge during preschool years regarding play. As children get older, their sense of fairness extends to resource allocation and concern for others’ welfare.	Southern Poverty Law Center
Aug 11, 2002	Adopt a Church QUOTE: Would it be unethical to list ourselves as Christian in the application with the assumption that there is a greater likelihood that we would be chosen to be parents?	New York Times
May 14, 2002	Roman Catholic Church Shifts Legal Strategy: Aggressive Litigation Replaces Quiet Settlements QUOTE: Besieged by hundreds of lawsuits accusing clergy and employees of abusing the faithful... [the Catholic Church is] hiring high-powered law firms and private detectives to examine the personal lives of the church's accusers, fighting to keep documents secret and engaging in new tactics to minimize settlements.	Washington Post
May 05, 2002	An Eminence With No Shades of Gray: In a New Bestseller, Noam Chomsky Argues Against the War in Afghanistan QUOTE: To pick up the most powerful newspapers and intellectual magazines in the United States, to tune in the 463 television political babble-athons, is to conclude that Chomsky is invisible.	Washington Post
Mar 08, 2002	Equality At the Airport QUOTE: Special check-in lines [for preferred customers] are unfair only in the sense that life itself is unfair....Special lines to go through airport security are a different matter.	Washington Post
Feb 21, 2002	Can justice cope with technology? QUOTE: Under the present system, justice and technology have become opposing forces. Short of a miraculous evolution in business ethics (unlikely), governments of free market economies must not only adapt, but also send clear messages.	ZDnet
Feb 03, 2002	Maternal Woe QUOTE: My 82-year-old mother vows to commit suicide rather than ever go into a nursing home. She is happy, enthusiastic and pain-free. She is also rapidly losing her memory. While she is aware this is happening, she is not aware to what extent. Do I tell her the truth now, while she could still act on it, or let her slip into dementia and nursing-home care?	New York Times
Jan 27, 2002	Center or Side? QUOTE: It is disconcerting to acknowledge valuing your own children more than others, but while all children have a claim on your compassion and concern, your primary responsibility is to your own: particular relationships entail particular ethical obligations.	New York Times
Jan 06, 2002	The Rule of Law: Indispensable to a Wider War QUOTE: ...the United States will have to show that its war effort continues to be not just moral, but legal -- in other words, that it is fighting to uphold the rule of law against terrorists who are trying to destroy it. How well America can convince the international community that it is acting within the law will be crucial to the level of allied support it can command worldwide.	Washington Post
Jan 03, 2002	Fairness ABSTRACT: The best short answer to "What is Fairness" that I've seen, taken from "The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics".	Fairness.com
Nov 12, 2001	Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote QUOTE: A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.	New York Times
Nov 08, 2001	4 Oregon Patients Seeking Suicide Sue U.S. QUOTE: Today, just three days before he would have been entitled to obtain the barbiturates that could enable him to choose the hour of his death, Mr. Holmes found himself at the center of an extraordinary legal battle unfolding between his home state and the United States Justice Department, which on Tuesday moved to strike down the Oregon...	New York Times
Nov 07, 2001	U.S. Acts to Stop Assisted Suicides QUOTE: Taking square aim at a measure approved twice by voters in Oregon, Attorney General John Ashcroft authorized federal agents yesterday to take action against doctors who prescribe lethal drugs for terminally ill patients.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2001	Violence Can Breed Justice As Well As Injustice QUOTE: There is a world of difference between "violence begets violence" and "violence begets only violence." In practice, the difference blurs as one phrase is often used as shorthand for the other.	New York Times
Oct 28, 2001	Reckonings: Taking Care of Business QUOTE: [House of Representatives Republican leaders] refused to allow an airline security bill to come to a vote unless it leaves baggage screening in private hands....huge lump sum payments from the government, totaling around $25 billion, with no incentive effect at all....pandering to special interests at a time like this.	New York Times
Oct 21, 2001	The Right Thing: The 'Me, Too' Mind-Set of Disaster Aid QUOTE: .... Regardless of the criteria set forth [for federal disaster money], Ms. Owens said, ineligible businesses sought relief funds because they felt entitled to the same financial help received by others.	New York Times

79 Articles and Resources. Go to:  [Next 29]

Please send your comments and suggestions to the Webmaster. © copyright 1999-2009, Fairness.com LLC.
"Fairness.com" and "Life isn't fair... but we're working on it" are service marks of Fairness.com LLC. All rights reserved.