Themes:
Ethics & Community
Our
communities are composed of people from a variety of backgrounds,
cultures, religions and life situations.
We live in what many people call a pluralistic society.
Our challenge is to find our shared values.
We
believe our similarities and connections are stronger than our
differences.
However
it often seems our differences are stronger than our similarities.
Ethics
or ‘doing ethics’, can help us.
Ethics
means creating the communal space where everyone is invited,
regardless of their views, to work out better ways of doing things
together.
Ethics
is a process. Ethics
can help us develop a shared story for our society and perhaps for
our globe.
The
only requirements are:
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Being
willing to listen
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Being
comfortable with some uncertainty and ambiguity and
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Being
confident solutions and answers will eventually surface,
sometimes indirectly.
For
a detailed perspective on bio-ethics and disability click on the 'Thinker'
icon on the left side of this page.
Click
here for a summary of a presentation by Dr. Margaret
Somerville,
founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at
McGill University.
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