Monthly Archives: November 2011

Response #8 David Magnus

Hope you’re all enjoying Thanksgiving break!  Organ donation is ripe with normative dilemmas. As you only need one kidney, is there any kind of moral obligation to voluntarily donate one of your kidneys?  I recommend this article in The New Yorker, … Continue reading

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Response #7

Hope you all enjoyed Prof. Meskell’s talk.  Feel free to comment on whichever normative questions moved you; I was most interested in the clash she set up between human interests and the pursuit of environmental protection.  Her argument, as I … Continue reading

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Response #6 Scott Sagan

Hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s talk.  Prof. Sagan’s research seemed to show that there is not a “nuclear taboo” — people’s approval of the use of nuclear weapons seems to vary quite considerably depending on the efficacy of the strike. … Continue reading

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