The Responsibility Project

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Murder, He Wrote

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (9)

If you can’t kill a man, forgive him instead. That was the mind-boggling moral journey undertaken by a writer named David Holthouse, who, along the way, was forced to define and redefine his views of personal responsibility. Read full article »
Killer Doctor

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (22)

If your doctor was a convicted killer, would you trust him with your life?

Karl Svensson’s future as a doctor seemed certain when he was accepted to medical school at Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Institute. Famed for choosing the annual winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine, Karolinska hand-picked its medical students, selecting an elite group best suited for grappling with the ethics of life-or-death decisions and leading lives devoted to saving others. But four months into Svensson’s studies, the 31 year-old’s future became unhinged by his past: would-be doctor Karl Svensson had killed a man. Read full article »
Samaritan or Killer?

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (21)

It’s possible to be a Good Samaritan. But is it possible to be a not-good-enough Samaritan? A Canadian woman was recently confronted with that question when two killers accused her of not doing enough to save a man they had beaten and left for dead. Read full article »