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Welcome to SEE's Reasoning with Ethics page. The following case (scroll down) and linked pages (right margin) are provided to help support class discussions or essay assignments with a focus on ethical reasoning, which is a supporting factor for ethical functioning and character formation. SEE will respond to your free subscription with a weekly email that includes a current events case and guided questions to support ethical discussions during the school year. SEE encourages the strategy described here to be applied beyond current events cases and to included analysis of relevant cases in history, literature and life. The Teacher Resources link offers files to fully utilize the weekly cases to strengthen student ethical awareness, judgment and suggested actions. Additional consulting services are also available to support the use of these cases.
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The Ethics of Ideological Bigotry
February 11, 2019 Fox News reports that the school paper at Washington University in St. Louis recently published an editorial by a staff writer that said, “It is OK that conservatives don’t feel welcome…conservative ideas are not equal to liberal and left ideas.” Fox interviewed a conservative student in response who challenged the editorial writer’s moral authority to dismiss conservative thought. SEE recognizes that examples of ideological bigotry could be uncovered on both the left and right. It is in this tension, where either side of the political spectrum insists that it has the moral high ground where dialogue and the exchange of ideas break down. In extreme cases, groups |
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resort to violence in justification of restricting the speech of others who they claim are morally unfit to speak.
What core values should guide the rhetoric of the left and right? What are the core values that protect the ability of those who disagree to express their ideas without resorting to intimidation, character attacks and/or violence to silence an opposing view? Students are asked to identify core values that protect free speech, and what social skills might be required to demonstrate those values. |
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