The Archives
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ethics, evolution, morality
Morality is genetic
09.19.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Morality is geneticI’m fascinated by the slow but steady trickle of evolutionary studies of morality. (Here’s the latest. And here’s the quiz.) On the one hand, they’re just damn silly. Really, disgust evolved because we started to eat meat? I’ve seen dogs throw up out of disgust; I think it’s safe to say disgust isn’t unique to […]
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ethics, nietzsche, sleep, virtue, zarathustra
Blessed are the sleepy
Another Nietzsche passage, this time on ethics, complacency, and spiritual disciplines:
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blogging, ethics, flickr
Ethical blogging redux
08.11.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Ethical blogging reduxTom Coates groks the ethics of freebies, blog ads, and post retractions. Chris Garrett tells of a blog posse that meted out internet justice to a Flickr photo thief.
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ethics, fashion, free-speech, hate-speech, morality, politically-correct
What you can’t say
08.02.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on What you can’t sayAre you morally fashionable?
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accountability, aristotle, bloggers, blogging, blogs, ethics, improv-comedy, pseudonyms
Blogging, accountability, and improv comedy
07.27.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWho are we bloggers accountable to? I imagine two families of accountability models when it comes to blogs. Professional models: Journalism vs. tabloid gossip. Academia vs. plagiarism. Footnotes, cited sources, and the lack thereof. Attribution and cheating. Personal models: Named vs. pen named. “In relationship” vs. hyper-individualist. “This is really me” vs. “I’m just playing […]
