Lesson 12 was the last lesson of the semester. The students in the class bought me a Jesus soft toy, because they wanted to inspire me to become a great ethicist like Jesus. I thought that was really sweet of them! Although I do think that the soft toy kind of looks like Einstein, don’t [...]

A wise man once said to me, “People don’t do what you expect. People do what you inspect.”
This saying is relevant to the topic of discussion for Lesson 11– the ethics of privacy.
One of the readings dealt with the issue of companies monitoring their employees’ e-mails. How ethical/unethical you think this practice is depends largely [...]

I learned many things about abortion in this class on the ethics of reproduction.
For one, I learned that many Christians believe that abortion is not morally wrong. (Before this class, I’d never heard a Christian say that abortion is completely okay!) And they have Bible verses to back up their beliefs. For example, Numbers 3:15-16 [...]

Today I was the star of the show. Well, kind of
The topic today was the ethics of romance, and I’m the only Duke male undergraduate in the class.
So the class decided that my views would be representative of the entire Duke male student population. Well… for anyone who knows me, I think you’ll [...]