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have discovered some videos that relate to Applied Ethics, and links to them are offered here for the edification of members and guests of this Forum:

You may wish to forward this one to your entire Contact list. The subject line of your email could read
"You don't need to understand the language to understand the message."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/uaWA2GbcnJU
[The tongue is Japanese....but no matter.......]

On the economy in the U.S.A............
"How Tax Reform can Save the Middle Class" http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-how

On the world economy - now and into the future:
Jeremy Rifkin, "The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things..."
http://www.booktv.org/Watch/15628/After ... osted.aspx

I'd like to hear the comments you might want to share after you've had a chance to view these.
What are your thoughts on the topics raised?

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This is an awesome thread. And like most awesome threads here it receives little or no response.



LOVE the first video you used. It clarifies some aspects of good deeds and why we may choose to do them. I LIKE the way you used the simplicity of imagery, with very few words, to make clear a rather, at times, difficult, connotative subject.




Your second video - WOW! I LOVE JEREMY RIFKIN.

I have literally watched Empathetic Civilization AT LEAST 50 times and I STILL enjoy watching it AND I learn something new or I am able to see something in a way I have not seen before.



THANK YOU for posting both of these videos.


Kudos.






...oh, and your link for the Rifkin video didn't work for me. I used this one.
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Thank you, Bill.

I have since repaired that link in the o.p. to the Rifkin interview on CSPAN's Book TV show.

Your link to the YouTube presentation is very good too ! Thanks for calling my attention to it.

It is nice to know that you appreciate the chance to see these recent videos. Glad to be of service!!!

I too regard them as awesome.

The first one, an insurance company commercial, is more eloquent than my essay BASIC ETHICS. The essay, though, applies to a wider scope of ethical applications and concerns. And it is written for the philosophical mind, written for those who like to see a logical argument, for those who 'dig' systems.

Here is a link to BASIC ETHICS followed by some detailed description of what is in it. Check out all posts in the thread: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12179

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I too regard those videos as awesome.


And YOU are AWESOME!




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