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Getting Divorced:  Banking On It?

Is it ethical to divorce solely to collect government benefits? Are couples “gaming the system” or finding alternate ways to grow old together?... Read full article

Last Resorts

In this article from_ Slate/My Goodness_, Sandy Stonesifer answers the question: How can I take an ethical vacation and still have a good time?... Read full article

Good Vibrations

In Good Vibrations —an animated whimsical crack-up about personal responsibility—a loose sidewalk paving stone throws people for a loop, and then some.... Read full article

New Media:  Old Complaint?

If you complain to your friends about your landlord, you might be called an unhappy tenant. But if you complain to your friends about your landlord via Twitter, should you be called before a court of law?... Read full article

Ballhawks:  Foul Ball?

When Chris Coghlan hit his first major league home run this season, the ball was caught by a fan—and in a standoff between ballpark rights and doing the right thing.... Read full article

Paying Organ Donors:  End of Altruism?

With too-few organs available for too many patients, is it time to pay organ donors for selling their valuable body parts legally on the open market?... Read full article

Walking While Texting:  Should There Be a Law?
Compassionate Release:  No Mercy?

A Manson follower and a terrorist bomber recently requested “compassionate release” from prison because they are dying of cancer. Do we have a moral responsibility to release terminally ill prisoners?... Read full article

Faking It: The New Responsibility?

Is faking it—by airbrushing and lip synching—some inverse new form of responsibility?... Read full article

The Sound I Saw

Who will step forward after the moment of impact and accept responsibility based on what they saw—or think they saw? Full of tension and gathering speed, The Sound I Saw reminds us all to look both ways before we cross the street.... Read full article

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