MetaFilter posts tagged with morals and ethics

We are a marriage preservation service

Potomac Avenue — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:39:46 -0800

The Ashley Madison agency: Adultery business now open for gays! Some people are not happy (NSFliberals) Some are giddy Many are puzzled More opinions and amusing commercials on their media page.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values online library

cog_nate — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:57:31 -0800

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are all online for you to peruse. The library consists of around 180 full text PDFs by a wide variety of authors -- Christine Korsgaard, Antonin Scalia, Jared Diamond, John Rawls, Richard Dawkins, Frans de Waal E.O. Wilson, Francis Fukuyama and the previously mentioned Elaine Scarry among them. Lots of interesting reading to be... read. Navigation is to the left. The collection is sorted alphabetically by author.

Common base of morality?

Gyan — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:14:58 -0800

Do the Right Thing

southern pride

konolia — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:17:33 -0800

Don't bump into a Southerner Paul Robinson on the ancient code of insult and revenge that is still prevalent in the American South

mathowie — Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:38:38 -0800

Jerry Springer guest pulls a Jenny Jones. A guest of the show is suspected of killing his ex-wife, who also appeared on the show earlier this year. I'll admit the Jenny Jones case was worse (getting the guests drunk, etc.), but you know Jerry doesn't really care about his guests when he says things like "The show is television ... this is life and death." What about the guests' lives and how the show affects them Jerry? Is that just television too?