Preface
I don’t like ethics books. I find them boring, sometimes smug, and mostly uninstructive. I have earned a living giving ethical advice for 40 years and I have never once found myself reaching for an ethics book to help solve a problem. None of the many ethics books I have read are worth much when you are faced with a problem that needs to be solved in a given time and within fixed resources. That sort of problem doesn’t even come up in most ethics books.
Why, then, write an ethics book?
Because all the bad ethics books can’t hide the fact that many of us would like to do something about the ethical problems that surround us. And there is something we can do.
I have faith that people want to live in a world in which doing the right thing ...
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