For those who don’t know, ethical issues tend to interest me a great deal. So, I was intrigued when I saw this post discussing the ethics of procreation. It’s quite common knowledge that, in order for societies to survive at the same population level, you need a replacement birth rate of 2.1 children per woman. For […]
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Just last week I discussed how an issue cropping up in the news (doctors involved in execution) was similar to an issue in my novel Life First. Â Well, it crops up again this week. This short but fascinating article gives a quick overview of the decisions programmers will have to make when coding automated driving
Headlines Hit Close to Home Again: Should your car kill you? Read More »
The interesting thing about writing dystopian fiction is when something in today’s headlines is similar to an issue faced in your novel. That happened this month when NPR ran a story about the ethics of doctors participating in executions. You’ll find both the audio and a transcript here. This issue related to the recent botched
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My mother’s book club is reading Life First for its February selection. I appreciate my mother’s haranguing her friends until they agreed to read her daughter’s book* diligence, as it’s very cool to be a book club selection.  This will be the second time being read by book clubbers I know, as the book club I belong to
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