Adjusting Ethical Standards Downward

When I was a teenager, I wasn't a Christian, and I grew up before the sexual revolution. I grew up when it was still considered a matter of ethics ...

Doctors Willing to Kill

Percent of U.S. doctors who treat the seriously ill who would be willing to hasten a patient's death by prescribing medication--11

Percent who would provide ...

Condemned Neutrality

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Social Justice vs. Personal Ethics

Social ethics must never be substituted for personal ethics. Crusading can easily become a dodge for facing up to one's lack of personal morality. ...

Dilemma of Society

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom ...

Poor Memory

The Yankee Christian virtues ... have not been disqualified or proved inadequate; they have simply lost currency, which is to say they are no longer clearly ...

From Morality to "Ethics"

How do we create symbolic virtue? We take the standards of morality that we have inherited from past generations. Then we "drain" away the idea ...

No "No" in TV Land

Many of our adolescents and young adults cannot "just say no" to drugs because their whole approach to life has been shaped by television, the ...

No Place for Faith

My break with faith occurred in me as it did and still does among people of our social and cultural type. As I see it, in most cases, it happens like ...

A World Without Conscience

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.