Situational ethics holds that decisions depend on specific contexts rather than fixed rules. For example, most consider lying ...

As technology and innovation change our world, the ethical issues we face change too—and the Ethics Center is poised to address them. Nowhere have the changes had more impact than on the news media.

The problem that even the most virtuous people face when thinking about torture is whether there is ever a case when a good result produced by torture justifies the evil act of torturing someone.