One of the hardest parts about being a father, at least so far, is realizing that I am now a role model. An extremely impressionable human being is going to watch my every move for the next 25 years,and it will affect his entire world view. Eventually, he’ll realize that his father is […]
Some great comments from my last post….I started to reply in a comment, but I figured I’d just write a fresh post.
We need to recognize that people do things out of their own self-interest. Any expectation otherwise is unrealistic and ignorant. We should design systems that harness this inherent “selfishness”; they will be much more […]
Ethics class today was great. Professor Bernard guest-led a session on the ethics of international supply chains.
I somehow found myself taking the stand that assisted suicide is OK. As usual, great genius is misunderstood. All I was trying to say is that if workers willingly chose to enter a contract, who are we to judge […]
Interesting article in the WSJ today about a recent experiment conducted at Harvard. Researchers found that individuals who had experienced damage to a specific portion of their brain were less likely to express moral sensitivity.
This supports an idea that I discovered a few weeks ago (in a reading for Ethics class) on the connection between […]
Dean Hansen visited my Ethics class today for a discussion about copyright in the digital age (which is also the topic of my independent study). We discussed a progression of cases that worked through the courts and helped establish current law: from Cherry Auction to Napster to Grokster to YouTube.
The central issue we discussed was […]
I figured out why my independent study (on copyrights in the digital world) has been stressing me out so much: the issues raised are extremely difficult to reconcile for someone with a strong libertarian bent.
You see, I believe that free expression is the cornerstone of an ideal society….I’ve spent a healthy chunk of my time […]
