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  • Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation.
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  • Pascal Marmier
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September 17, 2006

Missed opportunity

The US Congress, after having passed a joke of a reform bill, is not going to do anything more on lobbying reform this term. Full article in the Washington Post here.  The government acts as a regulator to rein in the most flagrant abuses of other bodies (corporations, law profession, health care, etc..) by enacting legislation. But who regulates the regulators ? The media is the watchdog - and alert system. But it is we the people, that need to put pressure on our elected officials. Let's all write our congressperson !

Posted by on September 17, 2006 at 04:40 PM in Government |

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