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March 25, 2006

Standards for politicians

Entertaining article from Rushworth M. Kidder of the Institute for Global Ethics entitled "My next invention: the Ethimeter". It is sort of a radar gun to measure a person's integrity - very useful before voting. In the absence of said Ethimeter - he gives 6 standards to look for in a candidate: selflessness, shared values, transparency, trustfulness, honest reasoning and moral courage. It would be rather cool if some body would published a ranking of candidates or elected officials based on these criteria.

Posted by on March 25, 2006 at 02:51 PM in politics |

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