9/11 Ethics Research Paper

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ETHICS PAPER #1 SUGGESTED TOPICS Of course, feel free to come up with your own topics, but here are a few ideas. I give you links to articles on some of these ideas. For most I don’t. You should easily be able to do an internet search and find articles about any of these topics. ONE WARNING: I want these to be current events, so I will require that your article citation include the date and the date must be within the last year (i.e. Sept. 2010 or later). 1. A good place to search regularly for articles on ethical topics is Kidder's Ethics Newsline: http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/ . A new one comes out every Monday, and you can search through archives of recent issues at the bottom of this page. 2. New technology creates all kinds of new dilemmas. How closely should parents monitor their kids’ activities on the Internet? Should they read their “My Space” sites? Go through their cookies files without permission to see what websites they have visited? Embed GPS locators in their cell phones so they always know where their kids are? …. Do a search to find articles on things like this. 3. At the 10-year commemoration of the 9/11 attacks last week, organizers of the events excluded clergy,…show more content…
Should the government (U.S. or state) ban texting while driving? 10. The U.K. had been keeping DNA profiles of innocent people in a Police database. A U.K. court recently ruled they had to delete these DNA profiles. Was it ethical to store them in the first place? 11. Should police be able to take DNA samples from children without parental consent? Is the child’s consent enough? 12. Lots of new prenatal DNA tests are available. You could look at these and ask whether they are ethical – from the viewpoint of parents or (probably better) the government (i.e. should this be legal?). 13. Should schools be able to search the cell phones of students for evidence of cheating or gang-related activity or other…? Lots of cases have sprung up recently involving questions like
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