Archive for the ‘Practical Ethics’ Category

Pedophiles and homosexuals – apples and oranges?

November 10, 2014

“In asking the pedophile to forgo sexual satisfaction, we do not ask him to forgo any especially great good…”

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You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?

August 11, 2014

Story from a student based on his journalism school thesis.

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Revenge – an unjust necessity?

May 14, 2014

“Recently, I have come to seemingly hap hazardously stumble over a series of texts and events that all circulate around what I always considered base and somewhat repulsive desires to hurt fellow human beings on what is considered good grounds…”

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Exposing criminals and punitive justice: is it time to reconsider the penal code?

February 10, 2014

“During the last years, we have seen a rapid increase in websites devoted to publicly exposing convicted criminals…”

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Art and Moral Taint

April 5, 2013

Practical Ethics debates the removal of Ovenden’s pictures from the Tate.

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Pedophilia, Preemptive Imprisonment, and the Ethics of Predisposition

January 21, 2013

‘Ethics in the News’

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