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Ignorance of the law has become an excuse to flout it, and to engage in
ethically
dubious behavior, such as inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his Mar-a-Lago resort, or attacking the department store Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line.
For all of these reasons, ethicists, health-care researchers, and social scientists have begun to examine how best to ensure that strategies for tackling drug resistance are
ethically
responsible.
And the Wikileaks Web site points out that while openness may lead to some highly visible bad consequences, what we fail to see are the consequences of not publishing, and the way in which a climate of openness makes it more likely that governments and corporations will act more
ethically.
The problem of excess demand becomes more serious – and
ethically
challenging – when it involves refugees and grows suddenly, owing to factors ranging from natural disaster to civil war.
For physicians, the idea of swearing an oath to act
ethically
goes back to Hippocrates.
Navigating the Anthropocene effectively and
ethically
is perhaps the most daunting challenge that modern humans have faced.
Most of the research on brain implants uses nonhuman animals, and the decades of harm inflicted on monkeys and other animals make it
ethically
dubious.
That is why we need to train robots to identify and weigh a given situation’s
ethically
relevant features (for example, those that indicate potential benefits or harm to a person).
Of course, in a real-life situation, there may be several
ethically
relevant features and corresponding duties – and they may conflict with one another.
So far, however, the determination and mitigation of ethical concerns regarding machine behavior has largely emphasized the “refraining” part, preventing machines from engaging in
ethically
unacceptable behavior, which often comes at the cost of unnecessarily constraining their possible behaviors and domains of deployment.
As a result, it is likely that the machines will behave more
ethically
than most human beings, and serve as positive role models for us all.
From this perspective, cochlear implants seem
ethically
unproblematic.
Some consider the Palestinian prisoners’ release a mistake, legally and ethically, and a shocking injustice to the families of their victims.
Companies are facing growing pressure to behave ethically, and unethical business behavior is at last being punished.
So these first reformers sought to engage with the ideas that they saw emerging from Europe: rationality, tolerance and
ethically
determined behavior.
The classical economists such as John Stuart Mill saw this as both economically illogical and
ethically
unacceptable.
And the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, long positioned as a beacon of virtue in a sector known for its
ethically
dubious behavior, has been accused of bribery, tax fraud, price fixing, and improper research practices.
Ethicists have grappled with such scenarios, and many would find this clinical option to be
ethically
sound.
But is PGD
ethically
sound if an infertile couple merely prefers a boy or a girl?
Moreover, in order to drive Europe’s transformation into a hub of responsible innovation and
ethically
sound production, policymakers must ensure that higher-education institutions equip students with cutting-edge knowledge and high-level flexible skills grounded in shared values.
The objections coming from universities are more puzzling, as it is in their long-term interest to conduct research
ethically.
After all, a Christian believer, as the Pope must be, would have to assume that questions of good and evil, and how to behave ethically, are prescribed by church doctrine and holy texts.
One of the most striking lessons of the British case – and many others – is that promising efforts to hold business leaders to account and ensure that companies behave
ethically
have not carried over to our political systems.
Moreover, there was a historically important and
ethically
oriented humanism in China as early as the fifth century B.C.
Corporatism (which should be distinguished from the tripartite bargaining structures that emerged in many countries in the 1970’s under the name “neo-corporatism”)became the most influential
ethically
motivated intervention into economics in modern history.
Yet there is also an
ethically
responsible and practical alternative to divestment that can help steer fossil-fuel companies toward the low-carbon future.
The other is whether voluntary euthanasia is
ethically
defensible.
As in Rawls, if we imagined that we did not know who we are or where we stand in society – whether we are rich or poor, male or female, young or old, CEO or shop-floor worker – our decisions would be more
ethically
grounded.
If the British unions wanted to be
ethically
consistent, they should apply the same strategies to universities in the numerous countries where human rights are brutally abused and free speech suppressed.
They concluded that it is
ethically
permissible to prepare stem cell lines from frozen embryos, but only from those obtained in the course of in vitro fertilization procedures and deemed by donors and their physician to be in excess of clinical requirements.
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