Is It Ethical to Kill Someone in a Hospital Waiting Room?

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A lot of philosophers look at ethics and just hands off be caue. They say it's too adjusted to local custom et cetera. But i think you're actually on pretty firm legal terratr of ethical territory, logical territory. A lot of times the issuewith ethics becomes ath there's no firm rule. Were, ah, you really can't do a kind of two plus two equals four, kind of study of ethics. If if were not careful with them, if the two situations are not directly the same in some ways, then they sort of fall apart trying to transfer from situation to situation.

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.