ethics
ART/CULTURE
If animals could speak, would we understand them?
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Turin, once briefly the capital of Italy, is famous today for its coffee, delectable hazelnut chocolate, Fiat cars, Juventus FC and the architectural wonder, the Mole Antonelliana. It also happens to be...
BIOLOGY
Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a bad idea — ethicists explain
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US startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of the Siberian tundra.
Colossal has received US$15 million in initial funds to...
BODY/SOUL/SPIRIT
Public protest or selfish ratbaggery? Why free speech doesn’t give you the right to endanger other people’s health
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Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in major Australian cities at the weekend, to protest the rolling lockdowns that have formed a central part of the government response to the COVID pandemic.
In...
BODY/SOUL/SPIRIT
India is facing a terrible crisis. How can Australia respond ethically?
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India’s COVID-19 crisis has revived a longstanding debate about whether foreign governments should come to the aid of countries facing major economic or humanitarian challenges and, if so, what kind of...
CONTRIBUTORS & BLOGGERS
Researchers have grown ‘human embryos’ from skin cells. What does that mean, and is it ethical?
A human blastocyst. Researchers have now created ‘model’ versions of this early embryonic structure by reprogramming human skin cells. Harimiao/Wikimedia Commons
Researchers have successfully grown model versions of early human embryos by “reprogramming” cells from...
BODY/SOUL/SPIRIT
Are COVID vaccines vegan? Should I get one anyway? An ethicist explains
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Some of my vegan friends are reluctant to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
These vaccines do not contain animal products. Yet animals were used to develop and test them. For instance, early trials involved giving the vaccines to...
CONTRIBUTORS & BLOGGERS
To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism
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Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of agonising free-speech dilemmas to which there are no easy answers.
Do...
CONTRIBUTORS & BLOGGERS
Don’t blame cats for destroying wildlife – shaky logic is leading to moral panic
Are cats really to blame for the worldwide loss of
biodiversity? Dzurag/iStock via Getty Images Plus
A number of conservationists claim cats are a zombie apocalypse for biodiversity that need to be removed from the outdoors...
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