Ethical choices during desperate times (Op-ed)
Ethical choices during desperate times (Op-ed)
- January 23, 2012
- An op-ed by Kristen Monroe, political science professor and UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics & Morality director, is featured in the Jewish Chronicle January 23, 2012
From the Jewish Chronicle:
We all have memories of events so important that we can identify exactly where we
were when they happened, who was with us, what we wore, or where we sat. I remember
the day my father told me about the Holocaust. We were in the car - a blue Chevrolet
with plastic seat covers that cracked in the cold - driving to my weekly piano lesson.
I can't recount exactly what he said, but my memory remains fresh with a sense of
horror so overwhelming I could hardly breathe. And then he told me: "You must always
remember that there are no depths to which man cannot sink, but there also are no
heights to which we cannot soar." About the author: Kristen Monroe is a professor
at the University of California, Irvine. Her latest book is "Ethics in an Age of Terror
and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice."
For the full story, please visit http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/62448/ethical-choices-du...
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