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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Empathy and the Cancel Culture The cancel culture seeks to marginalize someone with whom a person or group disagrees. The motivation to do so is that they have an unwelcome point of view, even a dangerous one. They make offensive comments or engage in objectionable actions. As I have blogged about before, the goal of
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What are the Motivations of Cancel Culture? According to Dictionary.com, “Cancel culture is the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures or companies after doing something offensive or deemed to be so by one group or another.” When someone has been “canceled,” it means they cease to exist to that person. There is
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Why There Is an Ideological Divide The Pew Research Center reported the results of a survey of Americans on May 19, 2021, on their views about the meaning of the term cancel culture and, more broadly, how they feel about the act of calling others out on social media. This blog looks at those results
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Does it Violate Free Speech? According to a Pew Research Center Survey of how Americans view Cancel Culture, 44 percent of U.S. adults have heard at least a fair amount about “cancel culture”. They were also asked what they think cancel culture means. The results are as follows: Actions taken to hold others accountable
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Evaluating the Rightness and Wrongness of the Cancel Culture I recently blogged about the various ways of examining the cancel culture and its effects on society, from calling someone out for their words and actions to boycotting them and shunning them from society, and everything in between. In today’s blog, I use an ethical analysis
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Being Accountable for Your Words and Actions Lots of people ask me how the idea of a cancel culture comes about. I answer that it is an offshoot of “political correctness.” Political correctness (PC) refers to language that avoids offending persons of various genders, races, sexual orientations, cultures, or social conditions. One of the most
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Cancel Culture: What it is Intolerance in society is being fueled by the cancel culture. Cancel culture is a manifestation of a lack of civility in society. The cancel culture is mainly an internet phenomenon where those offended by the comments of another party are denounced online by those who object to the behavior. It
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