Drunk girls break a window to get into a locked house. A man lies about his grandmother's death to earn sympathy in a game. A contestant says she wants to stab another contestant in the face. A woman drives drunk as cameras keep rolling — and viewers keep watching.
Turkey's leader, a devout Muslim, talks a lot about morality these days. It's language that alarms secular Turks, who fear the government plans to make religion a part of their lives.
As the editorial page of The Jerusalem Post put it on Monday, the world must be wondering, do Israelis really believe that everybody is wrong and they alone are right? The answer is yes.
All human beings have a specific agenda, a bias. Each person's point of view is shaped by his or her sex, age, ethnicity, social and economic history, religious beliefs; the list goes on.
War has changed a lot throughout history. At one time people stabbed each other with pointy implements. At other times, people shot from a distance. Opinion on the morality of war vary from all is fair to only certain things may be used to war should never happen at all.
My point with all of these questions is, there's a lot more to this issue than "all consenting adults! that means we're all free to do whatever we want!" Well, duh. Obviously porn actresses who accept money for their services made a choice.
Returning to the brain computer analogy, Poeppel says that the moral rules we follow, the impulses that tell us when to push the button and divert the trolley and when not to, are set in a sort of default position when we're born, just like the default settings on your PC.
The year 2008 had the ugly stains of immorality splattered everywhere [in the Philippines]-- from the botched multimillion-dollar deals with foreign entities, to the resurrected billion-peso dubious projects that have become the hallmarks of our current bureaucracy, to the shamel …
They raged against the Queen and the "fascist regime", and noisily agitated for anarchy in the UK.
Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists.
Do not blame this carnage on the recession or any of the usual suspects, including increased competition for the reader's time or diminished attention spans. What is undermining the book industry is not the absence of casual readers but the changing habits of devoted readers.
The secret to capitalism's success is its ability to take one of mankind's most powerful emotions - greed - and harness that emotion to drive economic progress.
The Jewish social philosophy class at Yeshiva University was supposed to focus on repentance, but there seemed to be too much to atone for. In the eyes of the students, Bernard L. Madoff had deceived scores of people, turned billions of dollars into dust and ruined many lives.
In August, 1939, knowing how close German scientists were to constructing a uranium bomb, Szilard drafted a letter to Franklin Roosevelt urging him to start an American bomb project; a letter he persuaded Albert Einstein to sign. In the years that followed, virtually every great …
Good news. Death is on defense this week. That's a big reason for the excitement about Christmas and Hanukkah.
Dec. 19, 2008 -- An 11th-hour ruling from the Bush administration gives health care workers, hospitals, and insurers more leeway to refuse health services for moral or religious reasons.
Demands that Bush officials be held accountable for their war crimes are becoming more common in mainstream political discourse, not less so.
Often, living in the 'modern' and 'sophisticated' West, we like to think that we are so much more advanced than the rest of the world.
The religion and ethics program presents two different women and the tough decisions they had to make after screening their babies for Down Syndrome. Are their actions morally right? or ethically allowable? or religiously authorized?
This holiday season, the American Humanist Association has launched a campaign featuring ads on Washington, D.C., buses that proclaim, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake." But a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project found that a maj …
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Many times in our relatively meaningless existance, we are faced with two courses of action: Do something, or do nothing. This cross roads may arise at any point in your life - be it in school, college, love, politics - anything.
Five security guards from Blackwater Worldwide have been indicted on charges related to a 2007 shooting in which 17 Iraqis were killed in a Baghdad square, two sources said Friday. A sixth security guard is in plea negotiations... More Articles
There has been lengthy on-going debate about the direct and collateral damage to the Middle East - the human beings who live there as well as the environment - caused by weapons whose lethal-ness includes depleted uranium.
Sometimes a Christian will ask me, "how can you be a moral person without God? What's the motivation to live a moral life if you're not accountable for it anyway? Where do your morals come from?"
So much of what is preached and publicized on behalf of Christian churches today consists of encouraging and sustaining morality as a basis of Christian theology. In fact, one might hear the proposal that morality is theology.