Instructions

I have created threads for the following questions:

• What moral responsibilities do we have as consumers?
  
• Are sports sexist?
  
• Is "The Accidental Racist" racist?
  
• Is Loyola Academy hypocritical for buying from companies accused of using sweatshop labor?
  
• If businesses are based on the profit-motive, then is greed morally good?
  
• What's the bigger threat to freedom: big government or big corporations?
  
• How discriminatory is US society really?
  
• Is the corporate world overall a help or a hindrance to achieving racial equality?
  
• Does the American business world live up to the ideals of Catholic Social Teaching?
  
• How much government oversight is morally required?
  
• Which is correct: stakeholder or shareholder theory?
  
• Which symbol or image of the corporation do you think is most accurate?
  
• How balanced is the movie The Corporation?
  
• What does it say about our society that we extend personhood to corporations but not to fetuses?
  
• How can we morally address racial inequality?
  

Pick one thread/question. Your job is to participate well in the conversation about that thread. Participating "well" is defined as:

• Engaging and responding to others. (If you only post once, or if your posts never respond to other people, you will do very poorly here. It's also a good idea to choose a topic that doesn't have a lot of people on it already so that you can play a more active role in the conversation.)
  
• Drawing on the sources from class (The more specific and relevantly you are able to reference the movies and readings from class, the better you will do here.)
  
• Rationally forwarding the conversation. (If your posts are illogical or off-topic, you will do poorly here.)
  

Each category is worth 5 points.


YOU MAY PARTICIPATE IN A SECOND THREAD ACCORDING TO THE SAME CRITERIA AS A "RETAKE" FOR THE PREVIOUS MESSAGE BOARD ASSIGNMENT.