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	<title>Moral Dilemma</title>
	<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org</link>
	<description>An Exploration of the Important Moral Issues Our Time</description>
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		<title>Crims should be punished by the courts not again by do-gooder employers or associations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only thing people want and are entitled to expect from journalists, doctors, lawyers, sports people and other workers is high quality advice, service and levels of achievement. They shouldn’t care less about the character of the person they engage or watch, for the same reason that we don’t character-check the backgrounds of the chefs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=214</link>
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		<title>Bikie vilification – even Anglo-Saxon men shouldn’t be discriminated against</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent vilification directed to bikies is a failure of logic, morality, social policy and policing. In short, it is simply discriminatory. 
Profiling and targeting for adverse treatment individuals who ride Harley Davidsons and have a group name plastered on their leather jacket is no different to mistreating people who happen to be Aboriginal, Muslim, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Fury at executive pays – unfulfilled shareholder greed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporate failings over the past 18 months would have been a lot worse if the senior corporate executives hadn’t been doing such a good job while at the helm. The absurdity of this argument underlines the absurdity of the Federal Government’s key justification for the economic stimulus package, which has failed to prevent the economy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=210</link>
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		<title>If all we do is moan about slackers, we&#8217;ll never get anything done &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The human condition is wired in such a way that there are few absolutes &#8211; it&#8217;s all relative. Our sense of wellbeing is principally governed by how we are faring compared to others, as opposed to how we are actually travelling.
Thus it is not surprising that a recent employment survey revealed that the thing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Taking the risk out of financial uncertainty – nine tips to a prosperous 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unpredictably was the main financial theme of 2008. Inflation was the key concern at the start of the year. An impeding recession looms at the start of 2009. 
Now that most of us are back to work, it is time to contemplate where to put our hard earned in 2009. What should you do in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Compulsory superannuation a train wreck in the making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is repugnant and economically unsound to force adult Australians to place the toils of their labour into financial products that drop in value and that have been misrepresented as safe investments. That&#8217;s why the failed experiment that is compulsory superannuation must be scrapped.
Superannuation is an experiment that from its inception was almost certain to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=204</link>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s war on the middle class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest enemy of &#8220;working families&#8221; is not the financial crisis. It is the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and his offensive and simplistic suggestion that middle Australia should show restraint in wage negotiations so as not to compromise their jobs.
People are not morally obliged to remedy problems not of their doing. Families struggling to afford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Two lessons from the Middle East hostilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of rhetoric by both sides in the latest Middle East war, but in the carnage there are two uncontrovertible truths that the world can learn which will lead to a diminution in net future human suffering. 
The first is that ultimately the only moral currency that matters is consequences. Trendy notions such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=200</link>
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		<title>The illusion of bank social responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The social responsibility of business is to maximise profits”, so declared Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman four decades ago. Corporate behaviour has not moved one inch from that mantra. And the most single-minded institutions on earth are those in the financial sector. Banks are created and exist for only purpose: to make money. That’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=198</link>
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		<title>Time to scrap compulsory superannuation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is morally repugnant and economically unsound to force sensible adult Australians to place the toils of their labor into financial products which drop in value. That’s why the failed experiment which is compulsory superannuation must be scraped. 
The share market crisis, which shows no signs of improving, is likely to result in superannuation losses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=196</link>
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