Ethics news:
archived: 5 July 2007
Ethics News is regularly updated with links and introductions to ethics-related news stories gathered from all over the web. We regularly archive the stories collected.
More to life than reality TV role
The news that the 2007 season of Big Brother has once again hurled the show into controversy has put all Big Brother loyalists among the commentariat on high alert. The trouble for me is that, on this occasion, I find myself on the side of the show's critics ... more.
The Australian - 31 May 2007
Let Emma be
Often the most intriguing insights offered up by Big Brother have less to do with the goings-on within the house than with the way the media react to the latest "controversy" over the conduct of its producers ... more.
The Sydney Morning Herald - 31 May 2007
The seven tests of an effective carbon trading system
Can we trade our way out of the climate crisis? There seems to be convergence of opinion on the need for an emissions trading system in Australia. Even the Prime Minister, a closet sceptic, has succumbed to pressure from business ... more.
The Sydney Morning Herald - 31 May 2007
Extremists winning war of words too
A dangerous minority of Muslims in the Western world poses a growing threat to society. Six years after the 9/11 terror attacks that destroyed the World Trade Centre in New York and killed almost 3000 people, a majority of American Muslims do not believe the attacks were carried out by Arabs ... more.
The Australian - 31 May 2007
Young US Muslims: a threat?
Last week, the first major survey of US Muslims revealed a surprisingly assimilated group. It's not easy researching this thin population slice (estimated at .8 percent), because the US Census doesn't track religion. Yet just as important as the survey results is the reaction from non-Muslims ... more.
Christian Science Monitor - 31 May 2007
How terrorism finds root in the West
It's conventional wisdom that Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian terrorists attack Western societies partly as reactions to conflicts in their own regions, such as the Palestinian-Israeli strife ... more.
Christian Science Monitor - 23 May 2007
Darfur: Anti-Arab prejudice and oil make a difference
The atrocities taking place in Darfur are inexcusable and Muslim countries must take a lead in condemning this and putting pressure on Sudan to stop the mayhem. We must also be aware how certain special interest groups are taking advantage of this tragedy ... more.
Iviews - 18 May 2007
No more excuses on Darfur
Behind-the-scenes diplomacy has done nothing to stop the slaughter of innocents in Darfur. For months, Secretary General Ban Ki Moon of the United Nations and other international leaders have been claiming ... more.
International Herald Tribune - 30 May 2007
Don't lock out the heterosexuals
Gays are slamming the door on their friends by banning them from a bar. Oh, we can be a fine lot, we gay boys. Stomp up and down St Kilda's Fitzroy Street or Sydney's Oxford Street in our finest, shaking our derrieres in the name of equal rights ... more.
The Age - 30 May 2007
Heaven sent for the non-believers
Atheists rejoice! Richard Dawkins' documentary shows that God does not exist. Root of all Evil? The God Delusion - based on Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion - is the best documentary I've ever seen ... more.
The Age - 19 May 2007
Fundamentalism, religious or secular, gets us nowhere
Some critics of religious faith share the bigotry of those they criticise. Richard Dawkins has done more than all religious people together, to put God on the current public agenda ... more.
The Age - 28 May 2007
Let them take drugs
Tour de France cyclists have caused a stink by admitting they took performance-enhancing additives. What's the big deal, asks a German journalist? ... more.
Spiked Online - 30 May 2007
Measuring the political temperature
Today�s �global warming story� - where morality equates to carbon calculating - owes more to the anxious zeitgeist than scientific findings ... more.
Spiked Online - 25 May 2007
Is it ethical to use nuclear power?
I have always been against nuclear power in the past. There is always a danger of some terrible accident, like Chernobyl, and the waste is extremely dangerous and difficult to deal with. However, given our current climate emergency ... more.
Spiked Online - 24 May 2007
Jindabyne: a guilt trip from down under
The latest big film from Australia wants to be a deep study of the country's racial politics, but it's just a shallow take on a classic short story. According to the critics, Jindabyne is 'Australian cinema at its finest and most mature' ... more.
Spiked Online - 24 May 2007