By Stuart J. Whitley |
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Ethics concerns the attempt by disciplined
discernment to identify moral options available in a given case, around
which there is some general agreement. Professional societies and other
groups, through statements of ethical standards or codes of conduct,
attempt to assert rules about rightness of conduct that rise above the
minimum standards of the law. This is most often referred to as
‘applied ethics’.
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By Stu Whitley
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there's a fading, sepia photograph of me, shipboard, clutching my mother's hand
immigrants to a new life, worlds separated by an ocean from all that was then known
taking seven days to cross. now holding the photograph close, it's not easy
to discern what I was thinking, for my expression - fast frozen these many years
tells nothing of the wonder, edged with fear that I surely then must have felt,
for all that was familiar, precious and true to me was about to be surrendered
in exchange for promises of fresh beginnings at journey's end. I arrived, dislocated
in a new life of fearsome opportunity, where anything was possible
some time ago, not long, it seems, though no photograph records it
I stood firmly clutching the hand of what I believed to be certain
yet all that seems sure rarely is, for we cannot know with perfect clarity
all that lies mysteriously beyond the oceans we choose to cross
it's only now I realize the full extent to which it can happen,
that I can be an immigrant once more in a dislocating new world;
a world that has journeyed to me, and anything becomes possible again
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It is inevitable that the pressures of the past that are felt by the
present have to be contained in some sort of manageable context. Life
must be worth living. Gazing upward to the crumbling decks of
those forlorn leviathans from my canoe on the Yukon River, I wondered
about the men who worked those paddlewheel steamers. Back-breaking work
it must have been to feed those enormous furnaces. Even the ship’s
wheel needed to be six feet across to achieve the mechanical advantage
necessary to turn the fat twin rudders under the paddlewheel. It must
have required Herculean effort to avoid the snags and bars of the Yukon
River. Did these men too end their hard lives as empty relics, used up,
discarded on the strand as life’s indifferent perpetual current
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