A bit of lunchblogging.
I’m getting enough queries about different moral aspects of the Hurricane Katrina situation that I’ve decided to do a series on the ethical principles that apply insituations such as this. I know that this is something a lot of folks are wondering about.
As the posts of the series will make clear, it often isn’t easy to determine the moral course of action in particular situations, but I’ll do the best I can to try to apply Church teaching and broader moral theology considerations to some of the situations that arise in the wake of disasters like this one.
Since questions on this are of interest to Catholics generally, as well
as other Christians and even non-Christians, folks around St. Blog’s
might want to give the series some coverage.
The first post in the series has already appeared. I’ve renamed the post below on price gouging as
DISASTER ETHICS 1: PRICE GOUGING.
More to follow.
Bush Mobilizes a Huge Recovery Effort
President Bush mobilized a broad federal government response to the region devastated by Hurricane