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Why has the ICC indictment of Israeli and Hamas leaders drawn so much fire? Understanding the notion of moral equivalence might help explain why.
In religious traditions, patience is more than waiting, or even more than enduring a hardship. But what does patience look like? And when should we not exercise patience?
Even self-proclaimed ethical tourism programs can widen economic gaps and harm communities they claim to protect. Here are a few steps you can take as an ethical tourist.
You can donate to environmental charities and even purchase carbon offsets, but not having an additional child typically has a much greater impact.
Brain-computer interface devices have the potential to boost users’ autonomy, especially for people who experience paralysis. But that comes with risks, as well.
Questions about how to ethically train different kinds of pets depend on the nature of those animals’ inner lives and their abilities to learn.
Just-war theory insists that civilians are not legitimate targets. However, civilian immunity does not provide blanket protection from harm.
Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
A political philosopher writes that voters may put up with some degree of deception from politicians, but they may not accept being lied to unnecessarily.
A human rights scholar explains how social media users can take charge of what content comes into their feed and reduce the risk of receiving misinformation.
Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the deceased or their next of kin.
States sometimes choose to pay for the release of their citizens held hostage abroad – but there could be profound, long-term costs involved.
Examining the understandings of what ‘toxic femininity’ means to people can reveal insights about gender, power and the impact of language on health.
When it comes to chemical weapons, American condemnation, even if hypocritical, is still valuable.
The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.
A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
A scholar who has studied imprisonment explains why the promise of sentence reductions in return for organ donation raises ethical issues about whether inmates can ever consent freely.
Jurors can perceive events in a video in different ways – one of which depends on how the evidence is presented in court, a media scholar explains.
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies; Director of Food Studies, University of Oregon
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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