Social media can impact behaviour of activists in the public area, sometimes, and may even influence corporations and governments. But one Swiss agency argues, Twittter may not be effective as an agent for change, especially when a a life is at stake. http://3blmedia.com/News/CSR/Will-Tweet-Save-Life-According-UNICEF-Sweden-Probably-Not
Lots of interesting comments as part of voting on this topic in The Economist poll. “CSR has nothing to do with charity” |The Corporations and Communities Debate Series http://ccdebates.eiu.com/?tw2
Recently, we heard a cultural sociologist speak about the dangers of hop hop music, drawing on her PhD thesis research of young women who were alternately excited and disgusted by many of the lyrics. My response was that music is entertainment, that there have always have been parent-children gaps involving music and literature, and
In a meeting with the Deans of Admission of several Universities and Schools The Dalai Lama was asked about his philosophy of education. He replied that every sentient being, beings who have experience of pleasure or pain, has a desire to live a happy life. Human beings have a brain that allows them to
“There’s a powerful link between productivity and what has been identified as “compassionate leadership” in organisations, observes Christina Boedker, a lecturer in accounting at the Australian School of Business and leader of a major business research study that looks at the links between leadership and organisational performance.”Read more.
“What then is the obligation of parents and of society when safe genetic enhancement is available? We are already dealing with these obligations around prenatal genetic testing, especially in IVF, when parents are faced with choices about which among a set of embryos to implant. According to liberal secular bioethics our obligation is ensure that
Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon; 2012) The full review, by David Nitkin at EthicScan, can be found in the Ethics in Integrity Webzine: At first glance a book on moral psychology would seem to be of limited interest to elected government officials, but first impressions
Is it OK to video horror as it unfolds? Might there even be good reasons to do so? What factors affect the answer to this question? Read the discussion here
From Conflict of Interest Blog by Jeff Kaplin: Many years ago, I heard the great federal judge J. Skelly Wright tell this wonderful story. He was presiding over a trial in Louisiana and asked one of the attorneys why the attorney referred to all the witnesses as “Colonel,” to which the attorney responded: That’d don’t
In the world of Cyber/Computer games participants are “asked to answer some ethical multi-choice questions in a gypsy’s caravan. The answers affected your starting class, and in the rest of the game you were vaguely encouraged to be virtuous by the game mechanics. It was interesting and different at the time, and felt as though