The study explores the factors influencing consumer ethical decision making when purchasing pirated software. 300 questionnaires were distributed among potential respondents for this study, of which 250 were returned. After completing the screening process, only 200 responses were considered complete and valid to undergo data analysis. In this study, exploratory factor analysis was used to iden...

This article analyzes the practice of infanticide in indigenous communities in Brazil. Taking as a reference point a specific case involving two children of the Zuruahá people, it takes a broader look at the issue and discusses how infanticide is understood among other indigenous peoples. A debate focusing specifically on this topic that took place during a public hearing held in the Brazilian ...

Issues related to morality have been discussed in the geography literature off and on for past fifty years. Since deals with correctness—right vs. wrong, good bad, or correct incorrect—it is not difficult understand how these value labels also exist contexts. The often questions a light superficial way which leaves geographers others wondering if there are more we might address studying human a...

This article advances a new argument on street-level bureaucrats’ (SLBs) moral dilemmas in developing countries. Developing countries feature deeper and more pervasive social economic inequalities than their developed counterparts. They also what I call fragmented stateness: states whose legal bureaucratic reach is functional territorially unequal that have an ambiguous relationship with own le...

Recent cognitive science research indicates that humans possess numerous biologically rooted religious and moral intuitions. The present article draws on this to compare forms of morality in the Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Indic (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism). Special attention is given teachings kindness, peace, love, as well related justice, violence, hate. considers ho...

The corona crisis of 2020 took many by surprise. Quite suddenly, politicians had to make drastic decisions guarantee public health, affecting basic civil liberties. In justifying their decisions, internationally reverted back a direct staging experts legitimize proposals for what became known as the “lockdown”. this article we analyze performance Dutch government that, early on, labeled its app...

Scorpionism is a known significant problem of medical and social importance in many tropical and subtropical regions including the Middle East. In Iran, highest prevalence of scorpion sting about 60% of all the stings has been reported from Khuzestan province. Among the 21,000 cases of reported scorpion stung patients, 12% were caused by H. lepturus, but contributed to 95% of all moralities in ...

This article accentuates higher education LGBTQ+ (HE-LGBTQ+) students’ lived experiences of off-campus housing in the Deonar Campus District Tata Institute Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. It is observed that key urban stakeholders such as brokers, landowners, neighborhood resident families, and hostel wardens informed by cis-heteronormative moralities work tandem shaping student market. The arg...

The giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, is an economically important crustacean and is farmed in many countries. Since 2009, a larval mortality syndrome of M. rosenbergii has broken out and spread widely in the main breeding area, including Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangxi, and Guangdong Provinces in mainland China. A novel virus, named Macrobrachium rosenbergii Taihu virus (MrTV), was...