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A life is a life no matter the decisions and consequence of that life!

Hree is the article AJ Jacobs ended up writing on "outsourcing his life"

Practical Wisdom in practice right here, we can all learn something from this story.

...and a related question: Why was this same decision not made with respect to plant life? 

After viewing the discussion video for this week I thought that we should recognize and see how amazing this woman really was. She put her life in danger just to seek out the truth in Russia's corrupt government.

Unions have become a rather controversial topic within American work culture today, but they arose in a very different time and shaped people's work life today in some pretty profound ways, most would say some pretty good ways.

This is a good review of all the business ethics issues brought up in one issue of Canadian Business. Very helpful if you're still getting the hang of how we're using Diigo to identify and share examples of moral issues. 

What information is private when a politician? This article is about weather or not a politicians private life should be known, do we have a right to their private lives?

Life or death issues should be the most ethical issues we pride ourselves upon. When there are doctors paying who are simply paying to save themselves from losing their liscences and potentially going to prison, we definately need to take action.

This is a great article @ Slate, from the Doctor we heard interviewed on the This American Life coverage of the healthcare debate.

I was trying to find a link about learning about good and evil. Then, I remembered seeing this poster many times in the past. I'm sure you've seen it too (or heard about it). This link is to the book on Amazon. I highly suggest clicking on the "Look Inside" on the picture and reading the "First Pages." Amazon allows you to read a select amount of pages. I suggest reading the Credo at the beginning and the Reflections in the back. I, for one, plan to purchase and read the entire thing. Sometimes I think we overthink. Life doesn't always have to be complicated.

If companies just take the time to understand what corporate social responsibility is, they will realize it is not that complicated and will actually benefit your company dramatically.

Cops are not always right and need to be re-trained how, when, and time to use such force

Excellent article on what money means to you. If you are wealthy, it doesn't neccesarily mean that you are very knowledgeable. This article provides the morals between money.

Article talking about people with more money spend more money. But, I can see this true that even though people with more money than they ever will need still go broke.

"Money may be the root of all evil, but only if you're not honest about what it means to you. "

The person we are in everyday life reflects on the person we are at work and the ethics we live by during work.

When President Obama addresses the nation's students today, he'll talk about an eighth-grade ethics class that still influences him in the Oval Office. "I remember being asked questions like, 'What matters in life? ... What does it mean to treat people with respect and dignity? ...

I found this article very interesting. I work with some people that show these behaviors on a daily basis. This has some good advice on how to hande these situations, and avoid behaving badly at work.

This article talks about individuals with toxic behaviors that influence their work behavior and regular personality in their life.

In London a Trader was arrested for fraud and fals accounting.

I thought considering last week's reading, this blog post was good to look at. It coincides with Maitland's argument for sweatshops. The part I found most interesting was this: "The most important aspect relating to the morality of sweatshop labor is that it is voluntary. That is, sweatshop laborers get up in the morning and choose to work in a sweatshop instead of doing anyother possible thing on any given day. Why would they do that? It's simple, by working at a sweatshop a laborer is able to earn more for himself and his family than he would otherwise be able to were he not employed at that sweatshop. The laborer has the choice to either perform some other task for money, produce his own goods and services, or go work for the sweatshop. He has made the decision that what he gains by working at the sweatshop is more valuable than what he would gain doing anything else." It begs the question of who gets to decide what these workers do in their lives to support their families and how they should feel about those choices.

Another good reflection on this issue, jdybing. One of the issues with this type of argument is that it's rather theoretical. It simply isn't true of all people that "The laborer has the choice to either perform some other task for money, produce his own goods and services, or go work for the sweatshop." Even if this is true, the next question is whether we should just accept a type of work and working conditions that demoralize people and trivialize the value of their lives. What Maitland says of sweatshops is just as true of the practice of child labor early in the industrial era of the US, where children were not only doing dehumanizing work but doing so under extremely dangerous conditions. It's hard to see how anyone would actually "choose" this type of life given viable options for doing something else.