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The Freedom to Experience Whooping Cough!

I had whooping cough at six weeks old. I burst my belly I was coughing so hard. If you run your hand down the center of my abdomen you can still feel the place. I am an old man now and in those far off years there were no vaccine. I also got to experience measles, chicken pox, and mumps. The measles infection was very serious and they put me in a bedroom by myself and a doctor came and checked on…

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Should Americans Have a Say in What They Want?

You would think that in a democracy what a majority of the people want would matter. You’d think. But very often it seems that the distance between what Americans wish for and want to happen and what our government does is wider than the Grand Canyon. Can I give you an example? Quite a few but let us do just one. Do Americans want subsidies for solar energy? Let us look at the link…

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I've Been Writing this Blog Since 2006

(An 17th Century version of me? Perhaps, but in any case a public domain picture from a book of the 19th Century.) This blog, Pilant’s Business Ethics, will soon be twenty years old, and I have hardly published in it for some years now. Why is that? Well, I had retired from teaching and had many other projects going. I actually worked hard on a number of novels. And writing about business…

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Scott Bakula May Return In New Star Trek Series

I watched all four seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise. I very much enjoyed it. And as a writer in business ethics, I could not fail to observe the intensely moral approach the show took to major idea like Fascism and tolerance for other races. It showed a society moving away from a capitalist outlook to a standard of individual achievement, a planet where wars were no long fought between the…

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Shot Dead for Making Money

https://www.moretoherstory.com/stories/he-couldnt-take-it-anymore-father-shoots-daughter-dead-for-outearning-him (Quoted directly from the article above.) “[Her father] had been upset for a while as he was being taunted by locals over his daughter’s income,” the Station House Officer Inspector Vinod Kumar told The Indian Express. “He was troubled by their remarks; they would keep saying the…

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Lies and Many More Lies

Business ethics are based on a bedrock of facts and reason, a true as we can make it perception of reality. But the leader of the current regime issues a constant stream of lies and misinformation and this is a constant danger to a common understanding of what is factual and what is not. Let’s start with this story from The Daily…

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It is Here.

We live in a profoundly unethical time under a profoundly unethical federal government which is in the process of becoming a totalitarian regime. We are much of the way there and Rachel Maddow is telling us in the article listed below that a key part of the structure of that regime is already in place. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rachel-maddow-warns-americans-1-134807335.html (Directly…

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The Legendary Oceangate

In the annals of Business Ethics, Oceangate is likely to be part of the curriculum for next one hundred years. The disastrous implosion of a carbon fiber submersible has all the elements of melodrama as well as a long, long list of issues found in business ethics. We can start with Hubris, an epic and fatal grandiosity seldom equaled and generally when equaled only in fiction. Then we have…