Are Financial Jobs Morally Unjustifiable?

Overconsumption and Procreation: Are they Morally Equivalent?

 I argue it is inconsistent to believe that overconsumption is wrong or bad yet believe that having children is morally permissible, insofar as they produce comparable environmental impacts, are voluntary choices, and arise from similar desires. This presents a dilemma for “mainstream environmentalists”: they do not want to abandon either of those fundamental beliefs, yet must give up o...

Are Morally-Motivated 1 Running Head: MORALLY-MOTIVATED DECISION MAKING Are Morally-Motivated Decision Makers Insensitive to the Consequences of their Choices?

Is morally motivated decision making different from others kinds of decision making? There is evidence that when people have sacred or protected values (PVs) they reject tradeoffs for secular values (e.g.” You can’t put a price on a human life.”) and tend to employ deontological rather than consequentialist decision principles. People motivated by PVs appear to show “quantity insensitivity.” Th...

Are Judges Morally Obligated to Apply the Law?

Are withholding and withdrawing therapy always morally equivalent?

Many medical ethicists accept the thesis that there is no moral difference between withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. In this paper, we offer an interesting counterexample which shows that this thesis is not always true. Withholding is distinguished from withdrawing by the simple fact that therapy must have already been initiated in order to speak coherently about withdrawal. ...

Cloning humans: dangerous, unjustifiable, and genuinely immoral.