Word: moralisms
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...government is going to be asked to do much more than set up guidelines for what credit agencies can share about people's spending and payment habits. It is not clear that it is legal or moral to fire someone because the odds are high that the person might quit. But, if a company can determine accurately that there is a 99% chance that someone will leave, why shouldn't it be able to fire the person and begin the process of finding a replacement? There is no reason that the employer should be burdened by waiting...
...existence of a GPS system that keeps track of people's locations gets into the tricky moral issue of lying. Pre-GPS, people would tell lies about why they were late all of the time. There may not have been much harm in it, especially since it was hard to verify whether someone's claim was true. (See a story...
...Technology is making it no longer possible for people to lie so easily. It is making usury okay unless the Congress says otherwise. Technology is interfering with job security in ways we could never have imagined. In the meantime, the moral codes for technology use are increasingly out of date...
...ruse. And that all of this that I felt that day and the subsequent decade was a sham, that it was just brain chemistry, an electrical storm in my temporal lobe, a delusion. My faith is the prism through which I look at the world and make moral decisions. What do you do if you find out it's wrong...
...debate over John Kerry's presidential candidacy. The statement, titled "Catholics in Political Life," was speedily drafted in response to questions about whether Kerry should be denied communion because of his pro-choice positions. Catholic institutions, it read, "should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles." When the bishops approved the statement, it wasn't clear whether it would carry much weight after the election, much less whether it applied to the case of a non-Catholic like Obama...