Thursday, February 26, 2009

Think Tank on Eminent Domain from an Ethical Perspective

http://www.eminentdomaintoday.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=32&Itemid=107

It states that since the landmark Supreme Court case of Kelo v. City of New London was extremely controversial and yet no one has looked at it from an ethical perspective, only a legal perspective. There as been a major misunderstanding in most cases since Kelo regarding the proper ethical behavior that should be associated with eminent domain. This think tank looks at something called descriptive ethics and normative ethics when analyzing cases. Descriptive ethics is the study of people's beliefs and morality, while normative is designed to describe a set of rules guiding and governing human conduct, or a set of norms of action.

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