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Gizmodo and Gawker: Guilty, Greedy, and Unethical
Eventually the lack of ethics alarms causes the people engulfed in them to break laws, and this is what happened to Gizmodo when it bought a hot iPhone. Continue reading →
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Ethics Quiz: “The Cabbie and the Jewelry”…Ethics or Pragmatism?
How do we know ethics had anything to do with what the New York cabbie did, returning $100,000 in lost jewelry? Was he being ethical, or was he just being pragmatic? Continue reading →
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Comment of the Day: Ethics Quiz: “The Cabbie and the Jewelry”…Ethics or...
Karl Penny puts the perfect topping on this post, about the praise being heaped on the NYC cabbie who returned $100,000 in jewels to an absent-minded fare, when he could have made a dash for the...
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Comment of the Day: “The Cabbie and the Jewelry”
Prodigal Commenter Penn re-entered the ethics fray with two anecdotes about ethics and Japanese culture in reaction to the Ethics Alarms quiz, "The Cabbie and the Jewelry." This was the second COTD to...
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Ethics Lost in Dallas Lost and Found Policy
What does Dallas think it is, anyway, some kind of Texas feudal duchy? The city government has an inherent right to lost personal property? Where did that come from? Continue reading →
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Ethics Hero and Dunce: A Tale of Two Windfalls
Two men found themselves with a lot of money that wasn't theirs. They had very different reactions. Continue reading →
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Comment of the Day: “Ethics Hero and Dunce: A Tale of Two Windfalls”
A reader named Lawrence Reliford argues that Stephen McDow had every right to spend the money erroneously deposited in his bank account, and in the process evokes---let's see---six rationalizations,...
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Ethics Quiz: You Now Know That Your Neighbors Are Irredeemable Creeps—Now What?
Now that you know what your neighbors are like, what do you do about it? Continue reading →
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