Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 24, 2023

Not something in much demand these days.

You’ll never get a job with the RNC or other Republican scams.

Other options:

2. Work as a corporate ethicist, repeatedly telling the corporation what they are doing is unethical, only for them to ignore you

3. Work on a Hospital’s ‘death panel’, deciding which patient gets denied treatment

4. Homeless drunk

Definitely not available in Florida or Texas!

Teaching ethics (supposing that at least an alumni a year truly learns them) should be a very, very important job

Write vision statements, codes of conduct, mission statements, standards of practice and other corporate fiction.

DEI enforcer?

Ethical behavior is attractive to a great many people. But not rich people and DEFINITELY not most employers.

Ethics isn’t for making a living, it’s just for living

Research approval boards have them. A lot of hospitals employ them too. I know, I’m always a bit surprised when I see a vacancy for an ethicist.

Maybe Trump or DeSantis will ban ethics courses because they are “woke”.

Trying to pay off a $300,000 college debt is a real test for an ethicist.

Sadly, knowing ethics doesn’t mean practicing ethics. There is tremendous demand for ethicists as spin doctors. They are also popular political analysts where they point out the other party’s sins.

1) AI Ethicist 2) Government ethics compliance officer 3) corporate ethics officer …

As in many subjects, is old Aristotle antiquated and at last obsolete on this matter?

Need all over the place but then there is this little thing called greed so their kind is not wanted.

Write a book

Curing people with a lisp. (Say “Ethicist” 5 times fast…)

One could say the same for a philosophy degree…

First understand the difference between morals and ethics; ethics are a personal choice not a public one. Most seem to confuse them: if someone spends all their money on drugs and sex they are still perfectly ethical so long as they subscribe to hedonism, and there isn’t anything wrong with that.

Teaching politicians right from wrong…he’d be in the giggly academy within a year.

“Nearly every man can handle adversity. To test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln.

What the heck is an “ethicist”? Are those the people who don’t believe in God? ..or maybe that’s anarchist.

“What are these ‘ethics’ of which you speak?” ~Sock Puppet Joe

Maybe he could open up an Ethics-R-Us store in a big box building in the parking lot of a mall.

Actually, he could have stopped at making a living teaching. At least as it applied during my classroom years decades back. But, with both of us working[she in an office job], we survived and can look back and be happy we are no longer on the treadmills.

Ethics, the art of not getting caught, right?

Well, there are places an ethicist can make a living other than academia, but they’re few and far between. For instance, hospitals (or, these days, hospital networks) have one or two to determine policy and consult on difficult cases. They’ll work as part of a team also consisting of doctors and lawyers and administrators. I would not be surprised if the work is rather soul crushing, since you’re caught between ethics, law, and the almighty dollar.

Actually health care organizations, particularly those doing research, do sometimes hire bioethicists.

No, not gonna touch this one.

ethics not a republican thing my congressman told me he didn’t care what the people thought he was going to vote his own mind no representation for me no longer voting for him

1) Fact Checker 2) Investigative reporter 3) Safety Inspector.

WAIT!!! You mean CEO doesn’t stand for Chief Ethics Officer?

Easier to make a living as a magic fairy dust sprinkler

1. Philosopher.

2. Whistleblower.

3. Computer AI App Writer…

Okay,let’s see you get 125 different puns out of THIS one!!

It completely amazes me that a GQP troll snowflake has not complained about how this “politicizes” this strip yet. Have they actually retired that sad old ploy?

The ethics of teaching ethnic inferiority.

Virtue is its own reward?

i have 40 year old toilet paper holders. take a good look at your tp roll. there’s where ethics went over 25 years ago. doesn’t take a knife to change it any longer.

It seems to me that it could be a great form of corporate window dressing.

 Great Oxymorons of Our Time

jumbo shrimp

military intelligence

Fox News

business ethics

Everybody has ethics. Their ethics may not match mine—or yours—but even so, their ethics are still ethics. If you don’t think so, please look up “ethics” in a dictionary. Quick link to one: merriam-webster.com.

Ethics are important and would be useful in any milieux.

Plenty of expensive, useless majors taught.

Yeah, right .. well, go on, prof ..

You can make a good living scamming corporations by offering ethics training to their employees and skipping management and the executive suites entirely. I went through three variations of ethics classes during a 35 year career. Never saw a manager even look in the door. Did see a bunch arrested for criminal activity that was supposed to be unethical according to those classes.

1) Write a book on the lack of modern ethics. 2) Become a business ethics pundit on TV. 3) Tutor business majors to fake ethics for their MBA.

Work for the Federal Government.. Ethics Officer

1. Newspaper columnist: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-ethicist

2. Ethical murderer: https://the-blacklist.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ethicist

SEE Philosophy In The 21st Century

Actually many ruthless companies like to have an “ethicist” listed in the company directory. It’s sort of a dishonorary position. :)

The same can be said for Economists.

My college economics professor said so.