Category: Ethics

  • Ethical Issues in Online Learning

    Online education is a common form of learning today. Learners are now benefitting from online learning process without having to go to school. Online learning has been promoted by modern technologies. These technologies include computers, smart phones and the internet. However, this promising innovation has its own set of challenges. The issue of identity is…

  • Media Ethics: Beavis and Butthead

    The author of the case study discusses a popular television series Beavis and Butthead. In particular, the writer examines the possible influence of this behavior of children and adolescents. For instance, one can mention that this show has affected the language of many Americans because it gave rise many new words that can be viewed…

  • Environmental Ethics: Land Ethic and the Platform of Deep Ecology

    Table of Contents Introduction Leopold’s “Land Ethic” Application to a Current Issue The Platform of Deep Ecology Current Issue Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Environmental issues have for a long time now been discussed and debated all over the world. The twenty-first century call for a reconsideration of the approaches through which environmental concerns that affect…

  • Problem of Journalism Ethics

    The first part of the essay is response to question one about how one would deal with the issue of cultural diversity in a situation where culture abuses the rights of minority. The second part is about how one would respond to the issue of personal interests as well as issues of national security. There…

  • Rolling Stone Magazine’s Ethical and Legal Issues

    Table of Contents Background Alternatives Proposed Solutions Recommendations Reference List While journalists are called to report news and important events, they sometimes fail to use information appropriately or check the reliability of the information source and is the reported cases are true. Such carelessness leads to the violation of both ethical standards and legal norms…

  • Persuasive Argument About Journalistic Ethics

    In the book The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm raises several ethical questions, which journalists so often have to face. The author’s work is a thorough analysis of the case between the convict Jeffrey McDonald and the famous non-fiction writer Joe McGinniss, who was accused of the breach of faith. The essence of the…

  • Ethical Perspectives and Interpretation on the Fables

    Table of Contents The fable of education as a commodity The fable of the educational contract The fable of Accountability The fable of Educational Requirement The fable of vocation The fable of educational partisan References The fable of education as a commodity Voluntary work is a professional and endorsed principle in the society not only…

  • Animals and Environmental Ethics

    Peter Singer, a professor of philosophy and director of the Centre of Human Bioethics at Monash University argues that “the effects of environmental actions on non-humans should figure directly in our deliberations about what we ought to do” Singer (p161). He further states that “Because animals can feel pleasure and pain and have the capacity…

  • “The Land Ethic” by A. Leopold

    There is a difference in the consideration of the new rules and obligations that one has to meet in order to establish the relation between the land and the animals as well as plants that are sustained by this land (Leopold 1). There is a possibility of evolution of the flora and fauna according to…

  • Ethical Dilemma in Journalism

    Table of Contents Introduction Ethics Versus the law Conclusion References Introduction The mass media fraternity is characterized by codes of ethics. The first known ethics in the mass media were implemented in 1923 under the Canons of Journalism of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. (Vivian, 2009, p. 506) Almost every stakeholder in the mass…