Tag: morality

“Downfall” (2004) is Disturbingly Good

9.5/10

“Downfall” (2004), which depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler holed up in a bunker in Berlin at the end of the European campaign of World War II, is a frightening film, although I don’t mean frightening in a horror film kind of way.

Most of us take comfort in the belief that we are not like

I Hate Indecent People

There is one category of people that I cannot stand, and those are people who are indecent human beings.

I’ve had the misfortune of getting to know far too many more of these people than I care to recall.

I once participated in a group lunch at a restaurant in which our server, a young kid who

Doing Right

This may come as a surprise to some people, but I don't like confrontation. Sure, I love a good argument, but I like arguing about the irrelevant stuff like politics and sports. So long as I'm neither a politician nor a general manager, such debates have zero impact in my life or the world. In

Enron Teaches Us That a Moral Compass Matters

I recently finished reading "The Smartest Guys in the Room," an amazing account of the characters who were complicit in the rise and fall of Enron.   It is a page turner; I couldn't put it down.

The authors, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, tell a story of how exaggeration, manipulation and obsession with the numbers, particularly

Should This Person Be Permitted to Become an Attorney?

Every state requires a candidate to pass two hurdles to be admitted to the bar:  the bar exam and then the moral fitness and character test.

Let me pose two hypotheticals, with variations on the second, and you tell me whether the candidate passes the moral fitness and character test.

At the end, I will state my
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