Trump Removes Top Government Ethics Official By now you have likely heard that President Trump removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) from his post in one of many executive orders issued since he took office just three weeks ago. The agency’s director, David Huitema, was confirmed to the post by the […]
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Can We Save Society from Rampant Incivility? By age sixteen, George Washington had copied out by hand, 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation. They are based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first rule is: “Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of
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Why We Have Lost Our Way as a Moral Society I’ve never seen the level of divisiveness in America as I have for the past decade. While I have blogged about the decline of civility in America before, nothing has changed, and it has gotten much worse, so I decided to revisit the issue. Incivility has been
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What Can We Do About It? It will come as no surprise to the readers of my blogs that I believe civility is in decline. In a 2021 blog, I examined some examples of the lack of civility in society including: I could add some more but, instead, I want to address just what civility means, the
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Who is Good? You or Me? Who is Right? You or Me? I published a blog about virtue signaling back on May 28, 2021. There has been so much discussion of it since then that I decided to refresh the blog and bring my thoughts up to date. Virtue Ethics One of the differences between
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Can Anything Be Done to Stem the Rising Tide of Gun Violence? It is alarming how so many senseless murders have occurred in the U.S. just in 2022. The country returned to its earlier days when the idea of the Wild West ruled the day. The Wild West was so named for the lawlessness of the
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Acting on Values or Compromising Them: What is the Right Thing to Do? A recent poll from the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) clearly indicates the polarization in America. According to the latest GU Politics Battleground Civility Poll, voters are expressing a higher level of concern over the level of polarization
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Student Depression and Even Suicide May Hang in the Balance I have previously blogged about various kinds of bullying, including in-person, on social media, and in the workplace. Bullying can have significant negative effects on those bullied, such as causing depression and even suicide. This is an important topic in society today, so I’m writing
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Smash-and-Grab Threatening Peacefulness in Society I’ve been out of touch for a while because of unexpected surgery. I’m on the mend and glad to be blogging again about compelling ethics issues, none of which is more important than the rising crime in big cities like San Francisco that have created a challenge to civil behavior
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“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?” I’m a big believer in following the Golden Rule as a standard for ethical behavior. After all, how can anyone argue that the concept, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is not an appropriate standard for ethical behavior? Sure,
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