Monthly Archives: May 2016

The Monotony of Work

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I corresponded with an old friend yesterday who was communicating the tedium of his work as a software engineer. He is thankful that he earns a six-figure salary, and he understands that most people in the world would happily trade places with him, but that doesn’t change the fact that a future filled with a lifetime of coding doesn’t excite his probing and restless mind. Continue reading The Monotony of Work

The Injustice of Sexism

Arrest of a suffragette organization member in London, 1914. Suffragette organizations campaigned for women’s right to vote.

I read an interesting article this morning titled, “Late-breaking sexism”: why younger women aren’t excited about electing a woman president.” Its main theme is that while women have made great strides, Continue reading The Injustice of Sexism

Ethicists Generally Agree: The Pro-Life Arguments Are Worthless

(This article was reprinted in Critical Perspectives on Abortion (Analyzing the Issues), Anne C. Cunningham, ed., Enslow Publishing 2017.)

Abortion continues to make political news, but a question rarely asked by politicians or other interlocutors is: what do professional ethicists think about abortion? Continue reading Ethicists Generally Agree: The Pro-Life Arguments Are Worthless