Tag: ethics
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Doing good: both hard and simple.
The other day, I took the controversial stand that abducting, raping, and murdering civilians is wrong, and that chopping off babies’ heads is wrong, and that doesn’t change depending on the baby’s religion or nationality. This was not really a statement on the eternal Israel/Palestine debate. I can’t believe I’m having to point this out…
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Moral wickedness: not a MAGA exclusive after all.
I am not going to sugar-coat it. I emailed the NYC DSA about joining up last week. A crash course on basic morality ensued. Not that I agreed with them on everything. But it’s good to get involved and make a difference, and by all accounts they were working on making a difference. Medicare for…
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Character as Destiny: Part I
Few topics get dismissed from conversation as easily these days as the concepts of good and evil. These are considered the puerile stuff of silver-age DC comic books or of Dhar Mann videos. Adults in the real world know that real life isn’t really good or evil at all; that almost everyone and everything from…
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Politics hasn’t been this simple in centuries.
I’ve ruminated before on the two main types of people who make up the MAGA movement. The first type are the born radicals, who hate the conventional American system and who have wanted to burn it all to the ground since long before you-know-who made his fateful elevator ride. But far greater in numbers are…
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Personal morals do not correlate with personal goodness
Regular readers know the general contempt I have for the medical profession, due to personal experience. A shocking number of MDs are cold-hearted thieves, bullies, frauds, pill-pushers, and exploiters of the sick and vulnerable merely to line their own pockets. Dermatology in particular has a long reputation for attracting the sort of doctor who values…
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I am not better than you. Neither is any other doctor.
Lawyers are regularly compared with physicians as an educated profession. Both require long years of expensive graduate education to practice; both types of schools are strictly gated to those with the right combination of grades, test scores, money, connections and ethnicity. Law and medicine represent two of the three learned professions since even the Middle…
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