Ethics Challenges and Responses
>> Tuesday, October 30, 2012
An interesting update from Reuters about Big tobacco companies resisting admissions of wrongdoing appeared on October 15:
This was right after coming back from presenting the Rutland Ethics Toolbox approach and decision framework at the first biomedical association national congress in Kumasi, Ghana. It may be a country only a fraction of the size of the USA (24 million), but Ghana took a mighty step in July, passing a law that bans smoking in all public places. While it goes much farther than any such law that would ever be passed in the USA, I can tell you that I saw no related trash and the leaders care deeply about the health of their fellow countrymen, especially youth.
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From the October 15th edition of Ethics Newsline
Commentary: An Ethics Report Card
by Ethics Newsline contributor Theodore Gordon
Some quirk of human personality tends to focus our minds on all that is wrong rather than all that is right. For example, as a futurist, I have found it much easier to talk about issues -- the most threatening ones are the easiest -- than opportunities. For politicians too, problems get attention. Cynicism prevails when they promise bright futures if only they were in charge. Perhaps that's why it was so startling to see an article by Bill Clinton in TIME magazine titled "The Case for Optimism." His glass was more than half full.... Read more »
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