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Analysis and Comment

The Right Thing

Doing the right thing

People commonly differ about what is right and wrong, which is surprising considering there is general agreement on moral outlooks. This may be because ethical issues are all too often reduced to judgements of expediency, with social factors playing a role. Moral positions are much swayed by fashion. They ought instead to derive from thought.

DateTitle
October 2004A Refined Barbarism
The thinking that led to the invasion of Iraq is crude and mechanical. With its inhumanity and promise of eternal conflict, it threatens progress towards a peaceful, civilized world.
June 2004On (Targeted) Assassinations
Examining issues related to the legality of the state-sanctioned assassinations practised by Israel and the US.