Category: Ethics – Ethics/Law/and Justice
Group-Contextualized Identity Politics and the Trolley Dilemma: The Failure of Kotoamatsukami and the Silent Struggles of Itachi and Shisui Uchiha in the Preindustrial Animation Naruto Shippuden
The sequel anime Naruto: Shippuden (debuted 2007) continues to gain worldwide popularity since the early 2000s; it built upon the …
The Suga Doctrine: Ethical Issues in Contemporary Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy
In 2016, former Japanese Prime Minister Abe declared the strategic objective of a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’. This concept has …
Has Online Media Fulfilled Journalism Ethics for News Coverage of Revenge Porn Victims?
In 2017, a girl as victim of revenge porn with the initials HA, became a trending topic on social media. …
Into the Grey Zone: Ethical Implications of Overseas Japanese Security Deployments
The Liberal-Democratic Party government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed bills in the Japanese Diet in 2015, which reinterpreted Article …
Two Recent Lessons in Ethical Humility: Boeing’s 737 MAX and Volkswagen’s Dieselgate
Volkswagen engineers cheated: they intentionally misled U.S. regulars using software. The engine's software sensed when a vehicle was being tested …
Lyotard’s Notion of ‘The Differend’: The Critique of Meta-narrative Approach to Ethics
Being a political philosopher Lyotard’s aim was to establish a philosophy through which the society could find ways to legitimate …
Is the Death Penalty Ethical?
The Death Penalty (DP) becomes more controversial especially after Pope Francis revised the New Roman Catechism declaring that DP is …
Illegitimacy of Capital Punishment: Its Unethical Contemporary Resurgence in Igboland, Nigeria.
Murder was proscribed even as a retaliatory measure as Gen 4:15 cautions: if any one kills Cain, he will suffer …
Moral Pluralism in Environmental Ethics
In issues pertaining to environmental ethics, the environmental pragmatists accept multiple values. They thus take a position of moral pluralism. …
The Declining Power of the Nation State in a World of Interconnectivity, Transnational Orders and Cyberspace
Developments of faster means of communication and transport, as well as the growth of international trade had a huge impact …