Pro Ethics

This is actually most of the last paragraph of the post on this page but I thought it was a nice summary of the principles behind this group: "In our concluding remarks, we touched on the connection between the biased images seen in the film and cognitive bias. The media continually recreates stereotypes, which generate cognitive biases, which lead to real-world discrimination in our workplaces and schools. How can we break that cycle? Educating ourselves about cognitive bias is a good start."

What would you do? With the weather change this weekend, I noticed a few accidents on the freeway.

I see a couple of ethical questions: 1. Is this improper censorship of websites or justified ceasing of sites that may be acting illegally? 2. Is it okay to apply a broad net that may catch more innocent fish than is justified?

"A significant majority of the Canadian population appears to support a more permissive legislative framework for voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide."

I think that this article goes to show us that no matter how much we like facebook, we need to be careful about what we are displaying to the world. There are still people with no morals who are going to take your information and run with it.

This article talks about how phone hacking led a family to believe their daughter was still alive. This is when the hacking is uncalled for and used for the wrong reasons.

US Supreme Court decides a California law restricting minors from buying violent video games is infringing on the freedom of speech.

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

Many of us take our clean and safe water for granted, but others aren't so fotunate. Glad to see we are taking great strides to make a difference; making a World Water Day is a great start.

Despite the CEO of a mine company reitirng and recieving large amounts of money, work conditions in these mines continue to be risky.

Nike placing a big focus environmental sustainability.

Glad to see that Nike has changed its ways to show much more coporate responsibility.

This couldn't coincide better with Practical Wisdom

Great article on the sandusky case and mainly about whether Joe Paterno should have been fired or not. A lot of ethical dillema here.

A high school senior who faces a Monday morning deadline to apologize to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback for a tweet that mocks him, has said she will not write the apology letter.

This is a prety good clip showing the number of colledge people playing games, and what games they are playing.

This is a informitive video about e-learning.

This is a video about a game that used the backdrop from a church in Manchester. I t is interesting to hear the churches views.