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Profiles in Courage

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

'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.'

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

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

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.'

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

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

Does Christianity have the monopoly on morality?

"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."

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

Moral Values for Dummies

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

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

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

In a Quandary

'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."

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

Angel and devil versions of a man prepare for a shoot out.

'At least we're doing our part to bring an end to world hunger.'

The tortoise and the hare - Aesop's fables.

"We share values, … which is why neither of us has a full set."

"You cheated on the assignment and got an A? Glad to see you've learned a useful life skill."

"We love your results. We're just a weeny bit concerned about your methods."

"Relax - not only does the devil have the best tunes, he's also got a great lawyer."

'Mr.Shumway here is our visiting ethicist.'

'They're the angel of social conscience funds and his evil twin, greedy devil.'

“What we have here is an old moral compass. How did it come into your possession?”