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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Ethics ReviewFor the first hour or so, I really thought I had finally found a good review of ethics. The sections on Natural Law, Kant, virtue ethics and social contract ethics were very concise, understandable and informative. This all came to a screeching halt on page 134 when I encountered the sentence "And we know that voter registration lists...deprive many people (at least six million during the presidential election of 2000)of their right to vote." Sheer stupidity.
From that point on, the book became a primer on political correctness and silly politics. You can read about how cost-benefit analysis is unethical and leads to rampant pollution (page 199). We learn that "we the people(the common schmoes, the taxpayers) subsidize businesses, so they do owe us something" (page 221). Karl Marx would be proud...wealth redistribution defined under the guise of ethics. Also, we learn "Institutional discrimination is maintained by institutions that are racially neutral on the surface, such as local hiring and seniority retention (I wonder if the authors are tenured?)(page 256). The list goes on with all the lies of the sixties and seventies: affirmative action; vegetarianism; equivalent work; wearing animal products...
The only conclusion I could draw from the rest of the book is you can rationalize anything you want if you "combine systems" in another words extract what you like from Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Mill and discard the rest. Then you can justify any behavior you want to, just like Stalin did.The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Ethics Overview

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