Help Me Choose a Paper Topic for Ethics Class

I was thinking of doing abortion as a copout, but I really wanna have something out of left field... False Flag Terrorism or something just way out there.

For something topical:
How about the ethics of the Japanese gov's coverage of the Fukushima melt-downs? Seems fairly obvious they can't possibly know if the reactor vessels are intact yet are repeating over and over that they are.

You might try to spin this either way - defend the gov't position or argue against it.

Just a suggestion

Thanks, that sounds like a good one.

Work and it's Obsolescence, what should we do?

A study of the last 200 years of human inovation in the quest to do less work and it's consequences on "civil"ization and thoughts on where the next 100 years will take us.


Short summary:

Humans generally dislike work and would rather play, spend time with family etc. so they have invented all sorts of means to do more work with less labor.
Sounds good right? Think again. Without work there is less or no money. Less or no money means no survival in todays "civil"ization so there becomes the need to invent work. Hell, it's not even hidden, it's in plain sight "Job Creation"

Imagine if you will, just for a minute that the current tax system went away and was replaced with either a value added tax or more simply, if the government needs something done, well, PRINT IT, in 1913 they did not give up the right to do this, they just choose not to.

There, taxes solved. No tax evaders, no more refunds, nothing, it's a whole new system.
What would we do with the people at the IRS? Tax lawyers? Tax Preparers? Tax accountants? How about the loggers who cut down the trees to make the tax information and forms availiable? The people at the paper mills that make the paper? The people at the printing factories? The people who deliver all of this? The people who build the buildings and eqipment these people use to work in / with?

Kick em out on the street 'cause they're lazy bums now?

Cure for cancer? God I hope not. Look at all the jobs cancer TREATMENT provides.

Get rid of MSG? What toll would that take on the fitness industry?

Get rid of flouride, arsenic, chlorine in the water supply?
What would those who produce and deliver these poisons do for a living?

Without work people see others and often times themselves as worthless, not deserving of even the basics for survival.

As we progress through the age of automation and less work where does that leave those who are no longer needed to work?

Future thought:
Eventually human labor will become totally unnecessary, what then? Kill everybody and let the robots take over?

It's a simple case that has plagued human kind since we got "smart", technology has outpaced humanities "Humanity" and is doing so at an exponential rate now. So much so that the people whom most people on this forum would consider evil, are in reality (For the current way civilization is set up) the GOOD guys. They create jobs aplenty, mostly having us harm each other doing so, but what would we do without these jobs?

Lets remember that we have been pushed into valuing these expensive pieces of paper from a private for profit university and our caste system is based off it.


Now look at the reality of what we have been dealing with all of these years.

The white man being superior has created the most awesome society in the history of the universe.

Lets pat our selves on the back for not being stunningly full of shit.

I had to help someone write an ethics paper a few years ago.

Scenario: Small town newly hired cop still on probation period, with new baby and just bought a new home. Needs his job.

Late one night he pulls over erratic, drunk driver and finds out it's his head sheriff guy, who is on his way home from a political awards dinner where he was the guest of honor. Sheriff tells new cop he may have had one too many, you know how these events can be...that he won't forget him when probation review time comes around, so just let him go since he lives about 1/4 mile up the road.

What options could he take and why? i.e, arrest for drunk driving because sheriff not above the law, but will have consequences for himself because of political ties and he is still on probation and probably sheriff, let him go but he may wrap himself around tree or run into someone else, follow him home and say nothing, drive him home and return early to get sheriff to retrieve car and say nothing, etc.

There is no wrong answer, just options with explanation of the ethical position behind each one.

Bradley Manning.

bill and hillary clinton

Taze the sheriff then hog tie him if he's unco-operative about his arrest. Ethically speaking it's the only way he'll learn not to do it again, the problem here being that he might do it again and hurt himself or others.

You could write about wikileaks...the ethics or lack thereof. Making government accountable, or is it just being a traitor? Both?

i argued the moral and ethical reasons to legalize prostitution and some drugs

How about the complete loss of ethics from our elected leaders?

Dealing with the economy and the unemployment rate.
Congress being bought off.
Patriot Act -- invasion of the bill of rights.
lots of stuff...

Whos tits? Doesn't sound like the ethical thing to do. Maybe that should be your topic.