"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

Welcome to Ethics Now. As you can guess from the title, my purpose in starting this blog is to examine, discuss, and debate the ethical issues of today from the perspective of real people, living real lives, who have to make real decisions. It is not an exercise in the purely theoretical or academic. On a fairly regular basis, (I haven't decided how 'regular' regular will be), I will take an issue, lay out the ethical positions of the various sides of the argument, and tell you what I think the better position should be. What could be more fun than this? Now all of my friends, enemies, students and former students, colleagues and strangers will have the opportunity of telling me publicly what many of you have always suspected. "Roe really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about." Or at least that's one possible outcome. Regardless, if I can stir the pot of discussion and debate, then perhaps I have contributed in some small way to a more examined life, and thus one more worth living. GR