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On Chicken

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Sometimes I feel weird about eating most meats. I sometimes deliberately avoid thinking about the fact that I’m eating something that I could potentially be hugging. That does not apply to chickens. Chickens are soul-less, horrid beasties on which no mercy should ever be even contemplated. NONE.
—Jeffrey Rowland

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Looking Dinner in the Eye

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Looking Dinner in the Eye - kudos to the chefs for doing this. The more I think about these issues, the more convinced I am that I need to witness, or preferably participate, in this something like this before I can eat meat with a clean conscience. [thanks to s-m for the tip]
LAST Friday, [...]

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Dr. Drug Rep

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Dr. Drug Rep - a really interesting, reflective piece on the thorny ethics of hawking pharmaceuticals from a psychiatrist who stopped doing it.
If I gave talks to primary-care doctors about Effexor, I reasoned, I would be doing nothing unethical. It was a perfectly effective treatment option, with some data to suggest advantages over its competitors. [...]

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Debating the morality behind software development

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Debating the morality behind software development - Interesting interview about the moral imperatives facing software, analogous to the moral issues facing physicists in the early nuclear period. Interesting.

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OJ is writing a book about how he “hypothetically” might have murdered a couple of people

Thursday, November 16, 2006

OJ is writing a book about how he “hypothetically” might have murdered a couple of people - It’s called If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened. I’m not normally one for moral outrage, but does this strike anyone else as kind of disgusting?

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Ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring

Monday, January 9, 2006

Ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring - Chris and I were talking about this just the other day.  I’m hoping that artificial diamonds will take the ethical dilemma away from me should I be in the position to be looking at rings.

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