Future Global Ethical Issues (Excerpt from the State of the Future report)


APPENDIX A3: Categorization of Ethical Issues2



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APPENDIX A3: Categorization of Ethical Issues2







2005- 2010

corp and econ

educatn

environ

govmt

biotech health

intel prop

Media

new front

philos

political

S&T

social

birth/pop growth

death ageing

space

brain/AI

who pays for it

crime




345

30

21

17

47

31

7

30

2

24

38

16

32

13

9

5

1

9

13




100.00

8.70

6.09

4.93

13.62

8.99

2.03

8.70

0.58

6.96

11.01

4.64

9.28

3.77

2.61

1.45

0.29

2.61

3.77

84

At what level does a national budget deficit become unjust to future generations?

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102

Does globalization increase the need for global ethical/legal accountability within international and national organizations, as well as individually?

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104

Should the concept of corporate liability be extended to include such things as alcohol, newspapers (causing depression), firearms, and violence in films?

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131

Is the imposition of economic policies by international financial organization ethically justifiable?

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132

Should developed countries maintain agricultural subsidies when they harm farmers in underdeveloped countries?

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133

Which ethical values should be adopted in international trade?

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135

Should minimum standards of behavior towards one's own citizens be required of national sovereign governments before access is allowed to, for example, international trading arrangements, capital markets, transport systems, and new technologies?

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159

Should corporations be allowed to price the supply of life-saving products beyond the means of the poor?

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198

Which is the ethical manner to intervene into a financial system that does not comply with the public interest?

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203

Is it possible for multinational companies to adopt codes of ethics that can influence corporate behavior?

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205

Is it right for a company to develop techniques that restrict farmers in their ability to re-sow seeds from a previous harvest?

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209

Would it be ethical to limit the free development of emerging countries, based upon environmental considerations, considering that the growth of industrialized countries has been without any kind of limit?

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211

Is it unethical for corporations to ignore the interests of some stakeholders?

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225

Has a country a right to deplete its natural resources in the name of an economic growth if it might benefit the poor segments of its society?

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239

Is there an ethical basis for regulating global consumerism?

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240

How can ethical behavior of corporations best be rewarded and unethical behavior penalized?

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264

Is it ethical to move polluting industries to developing countries?

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276

Is there a code of ethics that might be implemented in international economic relations?

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325

Should the rich states be forced to help the poor ones?

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330

Is it ethical to require working people to support the old, the lower educated and/or handicapped people?

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352

Is it not ethical for the debt of third world countries which was acquired as a result of their historical colonial tradition to be abrogated?

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359

Is it ethical to require major transnational companies pay a special tax to fight against organized crime?

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365

Under ethical principles should the economic system evolve in order to encourage a better distribution of wealth on a personal and national level?

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