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Practical Ethics Institute Inc. My mission is to raise awareness of significant ethical concerns and enhance moral deliberation.

This is very dangerous!
09/25/2026

This is very dangerous!

Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

Many solid insights here:
09/25/2026

Many solid insights here:

Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.

Well worth reading:
04/24/2026

Well worth reading:

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

My new paper on Trump and the military might be of interest:
04/23/2026

My new paper on Trump and the military might be of interest:

Hoping to learn your views on this paper, "The Abuse and Misuse of the U.S. Military by Trump and Hegseth: Grounds for Impeachment and Prosecution," which I've just submitted for a European military ethics conference:

An important and disturbing article. But trauma as a result of seeing or committing atrocities should not necessarily be...
04/18/2026

An important and disturbing article. But trauma as a result of seeing or committing atrocities should not necessarily be classified as moral injury, but rather as a normal psychological response. Callousness and cruelty are the marks either of moral injury or sociopathy. Let’s reserve the useful but overused term “moral injury” for the loss of moral concern or capacity.

Some of Them Killed Civilians in Gaza; Others Just Looked On, or Witnessed Abuse and Cover-ups in the Name of Revenge. Now They're Trying to Cope With Something a Bit Different Than PTSD

These attacks are presumptive war crimes 🙁.
04/10/2026

These attacks are presumptive war crimes 🙁.

The Times has verified U.S.-Israeli strikes on at least 39 schools and hospitals, a fraction of the devastation so far.

Important analysis:
04/06/2026

Important analysis:

Former JAGs warn that threats to strike Iran’s power plants would violate the law of war and endanger U.S. service members’ legal and moral obligations.

The agents who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti ought to be arrested by MN state police and charged with murder, or at le...
01/25/2026

The agents who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti ought to be arrested by MN state police and charged with murder, or at least negligent homicide. And the higher-ups authorizing and condoning these lethal encounters, warrentless detentions etc. should face legal consequences as well.

A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Idiotic arrogance + pettiness + lawlessness = dangerous global menace. If the VP and cabinet weren’t such sycophants, t...
01/19/2026

Idiotic arrogance + pettiness + lawlessness = dangerous global menace. If the VP and cabinet weren’t such sycophants, they could invoke the 25th Amendment and send Trump out to pasture. Republicans in the House and Senate could impeach and remove him, but too many of them are moral cowards.

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