Everyday Ethics

The frequency of my postings has become somewhat lax as of late.  My wife just gave birth to our son, Brandon, on August 6th, and we have since had to move out of our apartment in Fort Collins.  We will be in transit to Bowling Green, Ohio, where I will be starting the PhD program [...]

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Beginning next week, everyday-ethics.org will feature new content only once per week, on Wednesdays.  Our current publishing schedule has been twice per week, Wednesdays and Saturdays.  Despite this change, we remain committed to providing high-quality content that is both relevant to our readers and that engages substantive philosophical issues.  We apologize for any inconvenience this [...]

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The compassionate, bleeding heart liberal in me is desperately clinging to a desire to help my fellow man as much as humanly possible, without regard to financial burden or legislative backlog.  This point of view seemed very simple during my undergraduate upbringing, especially considering the number of sociology classes that  I took.  Sociology is a [...]

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Here, as promised, is the third and final installment in our analysis of the ethical obligations of the San Diego Chargers to their injured star, Shawne Merriman.  Thus far, we have discovered that looking at consequences did little in helping us to resolve this question, while considerations regarding contractual obligation were helpful, but still unclear.  [...]

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