Ethics Research Paper

1. Using your work computer for personal use – i.e. emails, surf the net, shop

2. Video game violence, when is there too much violence and should the government be able to step in and censor video games.

3. Do violent movies, video games and books actually cause people to kill other people?

4. Parenting with video games – fantasy becomes too much?

5. Game Developers and social responsibility

6. The difference in wages between Men and Women.

7. FBI Computer Crime Unit

8. Types of computer crime

9. Euthanasia

10. Animal Testing

11. Outsourcing

12. Employment Discrimination

13. Gender Discrimination at work

14. Women in the Boardroom: Should the U.S. Have Quotas?

15. Voting on the Internet

16. 10 Commandments of the Philosophy of Leadership

17. Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

18. Debit / Credit Card fraud

19. Aggressive credit card marketing

20. Drunk Driving

21. Underage drinking in America

22. Alcohol consumption and health

23. Selling of Addictive Products – cigarettes, coffee

24. Alcoholism and addiction

25. Pharmaceutical Scam and the Government Link

26. Censorship for Children – whose responsibility, is it really?

27. Censorship in schools

28. Homeschooling

29. Educational Resources With Respect to Special Education

30. The Amnesty Bill

31. Internet Dating

32. Gambling – Support Public Education, does that make it right?

33. Gambling restrictions

34. Is it ethical to use credit scores for insurance eligibility?

35. Chiquita Bananas and Terrorism

36. Do people and organizations have a right to pollute if they can pay for it; e.g., by paying carbon taxes, pollution fines, carbon trading, etc.?

37. Illegal Immigration – should we pay for them?

38. Immigration

39. Cross Dressing & Impact on other Employees & Business

40. Hunting Ethics

41. What are the pros and cons of allowing file sharing of MP3s to be legal?

42. Having a living will

43. Giving Driving Tests to the 70 & Older folks

44. Sex: What’s wrong with adultery?

45. Circumcision – Male & Female

46. Ethics of eating meat

47. Genetic engineering

48. Embryonic stem cell research

49. Assisted Suicide

50. Torture

51. Acid rock drainage

52. Recycling

53. Internet gambling

54. Artificial Intelligence

55. Fake ID’s

56. Shareware/software ownership

57. Online Term Papers

58. Online College Degrees

59. Phishing

60. Smart Cards

61. E-Commerce

62. Safety Critical Issues

63. Spam

64. The new laws on texting and driving

65. Sexting

66. Are payday loan businesses ethical?

67. There are a growing number of homeless people. What are the ethics with this problem?

68. Cyber-bullying

69. Knockoffs and the Black Market

70. The obsession with celebrities and media

71. Foreclosures on homes

72. Merger between St. Louis and St. Louis County

73. Concussions and head trauma in sports

74. Transplant tourism

75. Tiny Babies, Ethical Issues in Prenatal and Neonatal Care

76. School Uniforms - Should They be Made Compulsory?

77. Zero tolerance policy vs. give-them-another chance policy –

78. Respect for the Psychologist-Patient Relationship: when to tell?

79. Surrogacy

80. Cloning

81. Designer babies

82. Toddlers and Tiaras

83. Violations and cover-ups in college athletics

84. Money – why does the pursuit of money make smart people do dumb (unethical) things?

85. Ethics of multitasking

86. Use of child labor and forced labor

87. Ignoring health, safety and environmental standards

88. Marketing aimed at youth

89. Subliminal Advertising

90. Privacy: Does information's availability justify its use?

91. Privacy rights – employment, school, medical

92. Privacy and Anonymity

93. Capital punishment – deterrent?

94. Human trafficking

95. Is it ethical for society to recreate extinct species?

96. Should information pollution (as environmental pollution is now) become a crime?

97. Women in the military

98. Hate crimes

99. Prisons vs the economy

100. Welfare

101. Crime Victims

102. Poverty

103. Computers in the Workplace

104. Workplace Violence

105. Illinois law concerning no smoking indoors

106. Smokers rights

107. Paying college athletics Autism

108. Security vs Privacy

109. Human chip implants

110. The Grey area of welfare

111. Hydraulic fracking

112. Current Presidential Policies

113. Copyright Laws

114. Aids rights of the individual vs community safety (or campus safety)

115. Aids funding for research

116. Aids U.S. obligation to third world countries

117. Aids manufacturing of generic drugs vs U.S. pharmaceutical companies

118. Aids how contagious diseases "jump" from animal hosts to humans

119. Venereal Disease

120. Capital punishment fear of mistake vs demands of justice

121. Gay rights, bisexuals, transgender - marriage rights?

122. Gay rights, bisexuals, transgender - adoption rights?

123. Gay rights, bisexuals, transgender - need special rights for protection?

124. Gay rights, bisexuals, transgender – rights of inheritance, rights to be named closest of kin

125. Pro marijuana – legalization vs de-criminalization

126. Con marijuana

127. Parenting

128. Animal rights

129. Heroic Medicine

130. Is medical care a “right”?

131. Governmental Corruption

132. Rehabilitation of Criminals

133. Tort reform

134. Population control

135. Affirmative action

136. Freedom of speech

137. Legalizing Prostitution

138. Exclusive clubs – free organizations, clubs, fraternities, sororities, etc

139. Age Limits

140. Grade inflations

141. International obligations – humanitarian aid, military aid, military intervention, human rights abuses

142. Should teens have plastic surgery?

143. Food allergies in schools

144. Campaign Financing

145. Predatory Lending

146. Drone usage in police activities

147. “Broken Window” policing

148. Sexual Education

149. Drones

150. Why SCUBA diving is not just for recreational purposes

151. Why Traffic Violation Cameras are a sham

152. Is it ethical for prisoners to donate their organs?

153. Swatting

154. Horse slaughter for food/meat

155. Mandatory implants of contraception against pregnancy for all 

156. A non-college education for higher income possibilities

157. Polygamy should be legalized.

158. Use of biological weapons

159. Racial profiling should be done.

160. Say no to adult content in cartoons and other programs watched by children.

161. Single parents should not be allowed to adopt.

163. Gender choice during child adoption.

164. Availability of HIV drug kits in drug stores.

165. Implanted GPS systems threaten privacy.

166. Why using ‘Yank’ ‘Nigger’ ‘Abo’ ‘Asian’ ‘Kiwi" etc. is not offensive.

167. Journalism is the art of intellectual prostitution.

168. Intellectual property

169. Say no to palm oil and other products made with palm oil and save the orangutans.

170. Climate change is more political than scientific.

171. Allowing drugs in some sports competitions will allow us to keep others clean.

172. Should the decision to disarm Americans may lead America to Civil war?

173. Should the all-male court culture continue

174. Should mass school shootings should not get media attention.

175. Should prayers be imposed in schools?

179. Should terminally ill patients be allowed to use heroin

180. Should churches work harder to be multi-racial?

181. Should America stop behaving like the World’s police force.

182. Should a city be allowed to make soft drink size limit

184. Internet Piracy

185. FCC & the battle for net neutrality

186. Self-driving cars

187. Do people & organizations have a right to pollute if they can pay for it?

188. Getting life insurance with prior health conditions

189. Conceal to carry laws

190. Victimless Crimes

191. The importance of voting on ballot initiatives & knowing what you are voting on

192. Capitalism vs socialism

193. Correlation between excessive unnecessary homework & mental illness in students

194. Ethical issues in Construction (contractor perspective) most favorable option

195. Universal health care

196. Vaccines

197. Professional Responsibility

198. Globalization

199. Information and Privacy

200. Copyright and Privacy

201. Communication Issues

202. Software Minuses

203. Protecting Log Files

204. Fair Use?

205. How much protection is enough?

206. To Bug fix or Not to Bug fix???

207. Dealing with international nature of the Internet

208. How much to give back to open source

209. Monitoring at work

210. How bulletproof should code be