"Stupid Indonesian only know how to burn and burn!" - porchegtr3
It's not surprising how the haze issue in Singapore caused such heated uproar in Stomp. But the comments were even more disturbing. The reason why farmers there burn is complex. I wonder who is more "stupid", and how uncompassionate our "educated" people have become. What snobs.
Class was about defining ethics. Consequentialism, that was the dominant voice. It is common for convenience (by value measurements) and influential culture (by wide acceptance) to lead the way, but the "everyone's doing it" argument is littered with flaws. Doing nothing can be unethical at times. The central notion of ethics is progressing from "can we do it?" to "should we do it?". True, yet there can always be a disconnection between the mind, the words and the actions, which translates to the problem of "do we do it?". But one thing for sure, the constant conflict between the mind and actions is ethics today.
How about ethical lying?
Class was about defining ethics. Consequentialism, that was the dominant voice. It is common for convenience (by value measurements) and influential culture (by wide acceptance) to lead the way, but the "everyone's doing it" argument is littered with flaws. Doing nothing can be unethical at times. The central notion of ethics is progressing from "can we do it?" to "should we do it?". True, yet there can always be a disconnection between the mind, the words and the actions, which translates to the problem of "do we do it?". But one thing for sure, the constant conflict between the mind and actions is ethics today.
How about ethical lying?
