tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139087592011-11-27T11:18:54.237-08:00THE ETHICS DOCThe Doc uses non-philosophical methods to identify the ethical and correct course of action in life in lieu of the prevailing theories that often loose sight of the WAY.Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-43506803999660766852009-10-29T09:29:00.000-07:002009-10-29T09:29:02.831-07:00Why Does One Want To Be Ethical?
Asking someone whys/he would want to be ethical is really a backdoor way of asking why one would want to be a Saint.
Of course we all know the answer to that question, particularly if phrased with the word ‘ethical’ replaced with the word ‘saint’. How many times in your life have you heard someone admit, “Well, I’m certainly no saint” or drawing in others for Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-77116193122988993422007-01-15T08:01:00.000-08:002007-01-15T09:17:26.958-08:00A Right to LifeAre we all entitled to it? Somewhere along the line of the debate between the right to lifers and the right to choosers we lost sight of what the debate was really about. It isn't about competing values or competing rights. Its about one thing and one thing alone -- LIFE itself and the very essence of when one is entitled to it.Life, at least to many in the world, means life from Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1165340490325238502006-12-05T08:53:00.000-08:002006-12-11T08:46:46.726-08:00Dateline: December 5, 2006Ethical PoliticiansIn survey after survey, students, adults, and who knows who, have consistently pointed out that politicians are among the most distrusted of any class, group, or profession. Some would say the latter reference is a stretch because it is the lack of professionalism and petty squabbling that does them in every time.So why do we put up with it?Think aboutRobert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1153933049739139692006-07-26T09:34:00.000-07:002006-07-28T11:47:40.690-07:00Dateline: July 26, 2006Cheating in America, A National PastimeLook around. Today, more than ever before, it has become fashionable to cheat. One could say, and come away without too much criticism, that everyone expects it. The funny thing is the person who expects it, or observes it, or knows someone who does it, never does it themselves. Ironically, they actually believe they are not infected. Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1150237143676389142006-06-13T14:02:00.000-07:002006-08-29T00:34:23.200-07:00Dateline: June 13, 1006The War on Diploma MillsWhether They Are or NotIn May, an online blog that fancies itself as a higher education news source, using a national press release from Global Academy Online, Inc., (the world's premier provider of private label online curriculum and instruction, and who had just announced the opening of its unique incubator university), sought to dismiss it as Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1142618898284421342006-03-17T09:05:00.000-08:002006-07-26T10:36:53.586-07:00Dateline: St. Patrick's Day, 2006 Good and EvilThe Water TestCan you tell the difference between good and evil?The standard bill of fare for most of us is that we live life in a quandry deciding what is good and what is evil. Often, we rationalize the choices and somehow we muddle through it.What drives human beings to do evil things? For that matter what drives us to do good things?Here is a Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1139337123597056082006-02-07T10:07:00.000-08:002006-02-07T11:24:23.406-08:00Dateline: February 7, 2006MediaEthical or Unethical: That is the questionAre media presenters of the news and the mainstream press ethical?The public says no. Bill O'Reilly says no, Sean Hannity says no, Rush Limbaugh says no and virtually all of the conservatives in America say no. So are they or aren't they?The conservative broadcast critics have good reason to be skeptical. I like most Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1134267721279988292005-12-10T18:09:00.000-08:002005-12-10T18:22:01.296-08:00Dateline: December 10, 2005EducationDrugs, Gangs, and SexIt has been said that public education in America is abysmal. Some education professionals are outspoken enough to suggest that the status of elementary and secondary public school education is catastrophic.These are powerful and unflattering descriptions. The system itself seems to be in a spiraling downward decline, broken, and coming Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1129059700759531072005-10-12T10:28:00.000-07:002005-10-18T09:57:54.940-07:00Dateline: October 12, 2005ImmigrationThe bottom line is simple. Except for the indiginous Indians that roamed this land, everyone of us is the descendant of an immigrant whether they came here voluntarily or not.So what is the big deal about hoards of immigrants streaming across the borders to take advantage of the job opportunities--or to take advantage of our extraordinarily generous welfare Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1126553455924488762005-09-12T12:27:00.000-07:002005-09-12T12:52:37.353-07:00Dateline: September 12, 2005TerrorismTerrorism is an awesome word particularly in today’s world. It is something that always was associated with other people of the world, never Americans, and never on US soil. If an alien spaceship landed on the White House lawn, our lives and living in the world would be changed forever. On September 11, 2001, we might as well have had such an event for on thatRobert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1124155742676379512005-08-15T18:14:00.000-07:002005-08-15T18:47:39.323-07:00 Dateline: August 15, 2005The TruthDo you tell the truth? Of course you do. Except perhaps that occasionally we find ourselves stretching it a bit or rolling it over to make someone feel good or at worst stretching it to cover our butts. We never do it on purpose, right? Not!Of course it occurs to me that anyone reading this 10/20 years from now will not understand the use of the word “not” at Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13908759.post-1121248374254730842005-07-13T02:07:00.000-07:002005-07-20T12:18:34.513-07:00Dateline: July 20, 2005The Right to DieI suppose one could argue that if we have the "right" to life, we also have the "right" to die. The issue is so frightening in its concept that there are many who feel that the so called "right" was pushed to the logical end in the now infamous case of the late Terri Schiavo.The real issue I have felt from day one was not whether or not Terri was in a Robert Cox - Editornoreply@blogger.com2