This project is to open discussion on topics that are hotly debated. But I'm not interested in heat, I'm interested in intelligent dialogue. Ethical dialogue.

I think we've quit asking ourselves the central question of each issue: is my position ethical?

This is not a forum for political opinions. If you're on the left or right of a given issue, your arguments are predictable and uninteresting. I want to look at the ethical roots of issues that divide us.

Read the posts, and then comment on the ethics of the subject. This isn't easy. It will require thinking. And it will require allowing some distance from your opinion on an issue to allow the ethical point of the issue to surface.

You may, I hope, often find yourself conflicted between what you know as ethical but believe as wrong. You might even change your position on a given issue after you give deeper thought to the ethics of an issue.

Why Do This?

I believe the decline in ethical thinking has contributed to the decline of our country. CEOs take huge bonuses and move entire factories to China. Our politicians accept millions of dollars from foreign lobyists. Policemen lie. Food producers poison us. Employees steal. Ethics have indeed collapsed.

I know from studies that just talking about right and wrong improves behavior. Hopefully we can start a conversation that will bring ethics back to our country.

Chris Reich, The Ethics Project

Innisfree Ranch

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