Social Media Ideas for Moral Responsibility

From reflection to responsibility: On moving beyond good intentions

Public service cannot remain the exclusive responsibility of the government. While the State has the constitutional duty to provide law and order, healthcare, education, social wel...

Moral Virtues in Context

Where lives are on the line, meaning and purpose are essential to morale.

Advice I Like: Responsibility

“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility.” – from Excellent Advice for Living I’ve worked with a lot of people... The...

We have a moral obligation not to move on

A few weeks ago, a candidate for elected office said the wrong thing. In fact, they took a giant swing and missed by a yard. Their campaign went into damage control mode. Meetings...

Moral agency in medicine is quietly disappearing

According to Wikipedia and most dictionaries, “moral agency” is an individual’s ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for...

Dries Buytaert: Responsibility follows control

An AI model does not decide what data it can access, which tools it can use, or whether it can act without approval. People make those decisions at different points. Upstream, a mo...

Anti-Abortion as a “cheap” Moral Position

Taking a moral position comes with a price. Or, more accurately, prices.  The cost of holding a position and the cost of acting upon it are usually different prices.  ThereRead Mor...

The Diffusion of Responsibility and Pull of Conformity

Heroism means doing the right thing even when it comes at a great cost. But can we push through the bystander effect and our pull to conform in order to do so?

Respectability

The Moral Test of Self Government

A recent New York Times opinion essay about the death of Ruben Ray Martinez argued that his killing raises profound questions about Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the role...

Turning Moral Questions into Action on Workplace Safety

There seems to be an increase in democratic socialism in the United States. Socialism-based principles, the “common good,” the Green New Deal, limitarianism, post-neoliberalism, an...

Moral Sensitivity and Speaking Up Makes You the Problem

The loneliness of moral sensitivity does not come from the wrongdoing you see. It comes from the silence of everyone else who saw it, and from what happens when you speak.

Sanctions, policy, and moral choices

by Ian Paul, Psephizo International relations and the moral choices that go with them are complex. On what basis do we continue to trade with other countries with very different va...

2024 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matt...

Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,” given at the 2024 Eastern Div...

Is There a Measure of Moral Harm

Moral harm cannot be measured but its injury is felt. Any environment or condition of work that pitches a... The post Is There a Measure of Moral Harm appeared first on SafetyRisk....

Performative seriousness

When does a responsibility become a liability - a cruelty to the self?

Did Lindsay Clancy lose her mind — or her free will?

In the 1985 book “Habits of the Heart,” Robert Bellah and his co-authors introduced “Sheilaism,” named for a woman they called Sheila Larson. Her individualized faith took the self...