Ethical Conundrum Explorer Prints

"The results are meaningless, but it gets the animal-rights people off our backs."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'This time we're going to do things right. And if that doesn't work, we'll just go back to stealing.'

'One final question: Have you ever been disciplined, investigated or suspended for integrity on the job?'

'This is from a post-ethics phase.'

'You won't believe this, but even if the vaccine works, they wont give it to other sick mice.'

'How much stuff can I get away with and still go to heaven?'

'You're in luck. Business ethics is a gray area.'

'We were kind of hoping to let our CONSCIENCE be our guide.'

'Please remember, it's not a lie if it turns a profit.'

'Bob was eventually arrested and charged with outsider trading.'

"These are the care instructions. And if things don’t work out, there’s a recipe on the back."

"It's badly sprained, McElroy, and you know as well as I do that I'd only slow you down. Go on without me—and that's a direct order!"

Ethics ethics.

'I find it harder and harder to get any work done with all the ethicists hanging around.'

'I look only for the good in everyone...but I only ever find it in myself.'

"Instead of Red Team and Blue Team, why don't we make it Good v. Evil?"

'A doctor in the hospital's basement agonizes over the ethics of pulling the plug its ailing furnace.'

"If you want my opinion you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."

"Yes, I'm an environmentalist, But first and foremost I'm a whale."

"We don't see ourselves as either a David or a Goliath. We're content to just be the company that manufactures the sling shots."

Does Christianity have the monopoly on morality?

"Everything I know about being human I learned from animals."

"So, all this talk about appealing to our better angels..."

"Well, yes, I suppose I could explain the test results in 'plain English' — but then you'd know how sick you are."

"I try to follow my conscience, but by early afternoon it's usually lost me."

"Right, we could go with the ethical decision, but let's not panic yet."

Moral Values for Dummies

An early encounter between progressive management philosophy and the law of the jungle.

'How close to the truth do you want to come, sir?'

"Sure I know right from wrong. Right is what Mom tell's us to do."

'They're the ideal temp workers! Easy to train, industrious, punctual... And with a thirteen-day life-span, they conveniently die before collecting a paycheck!'

'We're looking for somebody in medical research.'