This means every action has either a positive, negative, or neutral impact on the world. Something as mundane as what you choose to pour over your cereal in the morning becomes an ethical choice with real-world ramifications.

Ethical Queries Surrounding the Agricultural Sector

It is morally questionable at best to even suggest that the occupied population is overall better off from the continued presence of its colonizer. It is beyond the scope of this article, and very well documented in other analyses, why the violation of sovereignty, cultural erasure, and imposed governance, among countless other factors, illustrate the ethical abhorrence of colonialism.

The UNC administration has a nasty habit of implying student concurrence in their decision-making when students simply don’t agree with them. As a member of the UNC Undergraduate Senate, I qualify as one of these so-called student leaders, and my peers and I have recognized a pattern.

From W.E.B. DuBois’ “double-consciousness” (2) to Nipsey Hussle’s “survival mode” (3), cognitive dissonance has always been a prerequisite of Blackness in America. However, perhaps these continuous attempts to name the internal conflict of Black individual desires versus external realities have been hinting at the novel term, moral injury.

Because emotional labor ascribes to systemic order, it must also follow patriarchal rules, making it distinctly gendered.

We have been dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic for almost two years now, and there is no foreseeable change in the near immediate future. All of our lives have been tremendously impacted and changed throughout multiple spheres of our public and private lives.

Researchers should be taking more initiatives to create proper tools and enabling doctors to diagnose ADHD in both genders at young ages so that there can be proper treatment. If we continue to ignore the signs of developing ADHD in young girls, we are failing them in giving them the best possible chances for success in their futures.

The labels that we use to describe people with exceptionalities are often inappropriate; however, by discussing these labels we can educate ourselves on what is appropriate and least harmful to those around us.

When the education and the scientific journals that the general public receives/read are largely based on a perspective that excludes a myriad of others, the knowledge we gain has an inherent bias. If anything, it detracts from the wholesome truth of the knowledge itself. If we exclude other perspectives on a subject, how much of the truth are we really receiving?

It can be valuable to be more careful with our dollars and strive to maximize their impact, but I will provide a personal example of how this movement created a conflict about the decisions I should make in my own life with my own time.

Combative sports do not promote violence insofar as the rules are written. Just as in any contact sport, the air of competition is filtered to be thin with malice but rich with struggle. However, outside of the rules as written, competitors in combative sports can promote violence through immoral traits and actions.

While Asian Americans, through this myth, are framed positively, the classification as the model minority also contributes to the reduction of Asian American people’s lived experiences to fit into the narrative of the myth and adds social and internal pressures to fulfill the associated expectations.

In recent years, the prospect of climbing Mount Everest has transformed from a remote possibility to an achievable feat—so long as someone has the funds to do so. Over the past few decades, Everest has become increasingly commercialized as permits are awarded to experienced and inexperienced climbers alike, and as guided expeditions grow in popularity. This trend of commercialization, while making Everest slightly more accessible to many, has spawned numerous problems.

I want to use this space to recognize two brilliant scientists - two women named Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Jocelyn Bell Burnell who have by-and-large revolutionized astronomy. Without their contributions, we would be years if not decades behind where we are today.

Many white people, including myself, understand that while we may never truly know what it’s like to experience the world as a black person, it’s our time to step down and listen. When internalizing and confronting the racism that has been so normalized by society that we didn’t even notice it, there can occur a lot of growing pains as we recognize where we’ve been wrong. While necessary, this can be deeply uncomfortable for multiple reasons, and some people appear to be reacting in unproductive ways.

While incarcerated members of society have limited rights under the Constitution, they are still protected under the 8th Amendment, protecting them from cruel and unusual punishment and requiring that they are provided with a minimum standard of living. Thus, the adverse, potentially fatal, health implications of incarceration during the pandemic raises severe ethical concerns due to the undue harm experienced by inmates.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, race theory was perpetuated by certain linguists who believed that many Africans spoke creoles because they weren’t “advanced” or “intelligent” enough to learn their colonizers’ language, whether that be English, French, Portuguese, etc…These incorrect labels and assumptions contribute greatly to the dehumanization of people of African descent, and some governments still weaponize these misconceptions to further certain political agendas.

The studentification of Northside has taken a neighborhood full of vitality and history and made its members feel like they no longer belong. While students do bring an economic influx to the area, its benefits are rarely felt by the original residents. Instead, rental companies who now own properties all across Northside benefit from the higher property value. If you are a student in Chapel Hill, what can you do to help?

The statistical representation of women in STEM is dismal, with the percentage of women earning undergraduate degrees in fields such as computer science and engineering as low as 18-19%. From a young age, women are discouraged from focusing on STEM, as gender stereotypes, marketing, and an educational focus on male scientists throughout early curriculums lead to female students deviating from previous interests in STEM. This early societal conditioning, combined with the existence of the “glass ceiling,” leads to a vast underrepresentation of women in STEM fields.