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Gang Rape after Homecoming: Bystanders Snap Photos
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Padmini Mangunta
“I bet this is a learning incident.” This is a quote from West Contra Costa Unified School District spokesman Marin Trujillo, in regards to the gang rape that occurred on school grounds after a homecoming dance. I actually felt chilled as I read this account — gang rape of anyone, let alone a teenage girl…
Is There a Free Pass When People Are Just Plain Annoying?
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Padmini Mangunta
I wish. So, I’ve been hounding my friends like crazy lately. Why? Well, lately I’ve felt fresh out of ethical dilemmas. My solution was to post a status message on Facebook and instant messenger, begging people to send any ethical quandaries my way. I promised I’d make them famous (ish). I received quite a few…
The Sick Traveler: An Easy Person to Hate
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Padmini Mangunta
Last weekend I returned from a lovely, restful weekend trip to San Francisco. As I boarded the red-eye back to New York, I found myself hoping that just this once, I would have the ideal flying neighbor–the non-existent one. What I got instead was a middle-aged man, sniffling, sneezing, coughing his way through the 5-hour…
What-If Wednesday: Would You Stop A Crime?
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hfields
Thanks again are due to our Beliefnet Entertainment Editor for this one. She emailed me the other day with the following ethical dilemma. While shopping with her fiance, she saw a well-to-do woman with two preteen daughters ‘forget’ to pay for a bunch of magazines at the bottom of their shopping cart. Says Dena: As…
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