Do animals have moral codes? Well, up to a point…

Posted by Tom Heneghan in Friday, June 19th 2009   
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“We believe that there isn’t a moral gap between humans and other animals, and that saying things like ‘the behavior patterns that wolves or chimpanzees display are merely building blocks for human morality’ doesn’t really get us anywhere. At some point, differences in degree aren’t meaningful differences at all and each species is capable of [...]

Does global warming trump all hot-button ethical issues?

Posted by Tom Heneghan in Tuesday, September 30th 2008   
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Imagine you go to a conference on major bioethical questions — controversial issues like abortion, embryonic stem cells, assisted reproduction and euthanasia — and a keynote speaker uses all his allotted time warning about global warming. Is this the wrong issue to discuss — or the only one worth talking about?
The question arose at the [...]