Ethical Questions Quotes

• Deberíamos preocuparnos por las cuestiones éticas en la misma medida que los demás. Nunca he pretendido colar ningún tipo de sermón en una historia; no tengo nada que predicar y, además, ese tipo de cosas siempre han tenido poco éxito en la ficción.

  Roy Kesey

  Play, Degrees, Fiction

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

  Randal Marlin

  Political, Maintenance, Demand

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.30, Broadview Press

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• Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave nothing for others, or do the angels of our better nature still live? I believe the angels are still alive.

  James Balog

  Spiritual, Believe, Angel

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• Es muy difícil para un biólogo evolutivo escribir sobre la extinción causada por la estupidez humana. Permítanme entonces lanzar un alegato poco convencional, a la inversa del argumento habitual. La extinción de Partula es injusta para Partula. Ese es el argumento convencional, y no cuestiono su primacía. Pero también necesitamos una ecología humanista, tanto por la razón práctica de que las personas siempre tocarán a las personas más de lo que lo hacen o pueden hacerlo los caracoles, como por la razón moral de que los seres humanos somos legítimamente la medida de todas las cuestiones éticas, ya que se trata de nuestros problemas, no de los de la naturaleza.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, People

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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• With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

  Alan Lightman

  Philosophy, Borders, Theology

  ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Loneliness, Ethical Issues

  "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America". Book by Edmund White, 1980.

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• One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.

  Roland Barthes

  Our World, Desire, Realizing

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• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  Donald A. Norman

  Aggravation, People, Doe

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• Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Gente, Enfermo, Iglesia

  "Mommie Dearest". www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet nestled in the provident silence of space. The ethical question is whether this is contributing to authentic human development and helping individuals and peoples to be true to their transcendent destiny.

  John Foley

  Faith, Inspiration, Destiny

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