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The Superpower Next Door

Bully for you — but at what cost?

Love’s Remains

Canada’s poets have left a rich epistolary trail

How the West Was One

Tim Cook’s story of Allied cooperation

Arthur Schafer

Arthur Schafer is the director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.

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Does Technology Make Us Do It?

Two very different views of ethics in the modern age. December 2008
Dr. Schweitzer, may I introduce Dr. Frankenstein. Images of the miracle-working white-coated scientist are embedded in contemporary western culture. The hoped-for miracles are various. Medical scientists, we believe, are on the verge of bringing us a cure for cancer, along with a vaccine for AIDS. Agricultural scientists are creating genetically modified crops whose fecundity…