As a person with a fondness for things like ethics, transparency, wisdom and the human experience of joy, there's no way in hell I'd have volunteered to write about the last five years of Australian politics.
But the revelation nevertheless set off an urgent debate over the ethics — and wisdom — of tinkering with the most basic building blocks of life.
There are plenty of thoughtful and diverse opinions at the University of San Francisco and elsewhere regarding the legality, ethics and wisdom of releasing classified material via WikiLeaks.
I'm also going to expand the parameters from Los Angeles proper to southern California: LA isn't a city, it's a concept which applies anywhere in the Golden State where nice weather abounds, a chasm yawns between the haves and the have-nots, and delusional blind ambition is habitually confused with work ethic and wisdom.
I didn't know what was going to happen to Scoreboard 2, but I assumed that the bar, urged on by Taffer's work ethic and wisdom, would be refashioned as a successful, profitable establishment.
But as I waited, I thought of that seventh grader, and of the other middle-schoolers who have told me things that left me agonizing about the ethics and the wisdom of confidentiality in this age group.
He often proclaims the superiority of Christian ethics over pagan wisdom (I, 23; VI, 209 10).
When faced with a clear choice between the two often conflicting moral doctrines Thomas, like his contemporaries, preferred the religious doctrines to the rationally based ethics of practical wisdom.
This is the moment in which biblical ethics and the wisdom of spiritual traditions are actually more realistic than the plans of the capitalist economists.
While you can question the ethics, constitutionality, and wisdom of some of his legislative initiatives, it's much harder to doubt his intelligence, cleverness, and behind-the-scenes strong-arming skills.
