Grappling with the Gray Yonason Goldson

Is our confusion between panic and panacea leading us into social chaos?That's the question that underlines the conversation when Christopher Bauer, PhD, CSP, CFS, 🟦 Melissa Hughes, Ph.D., and Mary Beth Molloy join the ethics panel to Grapple with the Gray.Here is our topic:Recently, Oprah Winfrey apologized for the part she played in promoting unhealthy and unrealistic diets.She said one of her “biggest regrets," is bringing out 67 pounds of animal fat onto her TV show stage in 1998 to illus...

Do we prevent ourselves from getting anything by trying to get everything?That's the question that underlies the discussion when Jeff Koziatek, 🟦 Mark O'Brien, and Annette Taylor join the ethics panel to Grapple with the Gray.Here is our scenario:On May 1st, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill prohibiting the production and sale of lab-grown meat. When I read the headline, I couldn’t help wondering why.It seems that Bill Gates, a heavy investor in the industry, has publicly urged gove...

When do some people's problems become everybody's problems?That's the question driving the conversation when 🟦 Jeff Ikler, Sarah Kalmeta, and S. Scott Mason join the ethics panel to Grapple with the Gray.Here is our topic:“With the stroke of his pen,” said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, “Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt."On the one hand, college debt poses an enormous burden, especially for young people just entering ...

Is doing the wrong thing ever the right thing?That classic ethical question underscores the conversation when Kimberly Davis, Peter Winick, and K Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski join the ethics panel to Grapple with the Gray.True story:An elderly Jewish man with late stage cancer was given only a few weeks to live by his doctors. His final wish was to spend his last days in Israel and be buried there, so he booked a flight and made arrangements for hospice care when he arrived.A woman affiliated with th...

What happens when we sabotage our own efforts to promote values by sending contradictory messages?That's the ethics challenge the panel takes up when Natalia Alvarez, Ph.D., JC Glick, and Lovelda Vincenzi join me to Grapple with the Gray.A teacher at the private Girls’ Day School Trust in the UK was recently ordered to apologize and subsequently told her contract would not be renewed after her class of 11-year-old students protested that her comments were offensive.Her crime: Addressing the c...

This is one of my all time favorite conversations. Enjoy this episode from the archives!Here is our topic:About five years ago, I was driving home from Dallas, Texas, when I pulled up to a toll booth in Oklahoma. Being somewhat directionally challenged, I told the attendant that I was turning west, thereby exempting myself from the toll of $2.50. When I reached the turnoff, however, I realized that I needed to go east, but there was no way of getting back to correct my error without a c...