Being Point

Tag: accountability

  • Who Decides On Issues Affecting Technology And Ethics?

    Technology and ethics: an increasingly troubling set of concerns. We have expanding abilities to challenge the status quo of human beings in ways that can be amazing, but also frightening and horrific. Cloning, stem cell therapy, genetic engineering are ready examples.

    Who decides? On what basis are decisions made? What kind of accountability and oversight is needed to assure ethical outcomes? Whose ethics form the basis for the answers to these questions?

    It’s clear that technology can be used for good or ill. How do you propose to address this paradox? What kinds of guidelines would you suggest if you were suddenly charged with running things?

    Please let me hear from you on this so that I can share the answers.

  • How Well Do You Keep Promises To Yourself?

    Each of us has made and subsequently broken promises to ourselves about all kinds of habits, behaviors and thoughts. Exercise, diet, relationships and money are among the key areas where we humans have promised to do or not to do something – and we have found ourselves making excuses and breaking our promises.

    It’s been difficult for we humans to hold ourselves individually accountable to ourselves, so there have tended to be little to no consequence for broken promises beyond guilt and regret.

    How good have you been at keeping promises you have made to yourself?  Have you made New Year’s resolutions?  How well have you kept them?  What can be done to improve your ability to keep your promises to yourself?