In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....

This study solicited the views of more than five hundred young, educated adults with two goals: (1) to determine whether political party affiliation is a significant demographic variable in jury selection (voir dire) and (2) to determine whether Democrats are softer on crime than Republicans,...

No one has yet been able to define what a “fair share” of taxes is. There are several principal views on this question, but no consensus has been reached so far. Politicians who pander to the masses argue that some individuals do not pay their fair share, and that they need to pay more, but...

There has been much discussion about gender discrimination in the workplace. Women comprise X% of the population but only hold X-Y% of certain positions, therefore there is a need to hire more women in that job category. Women earn less than men; therefore we need to increase women’s salaries....

Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933. The result was World War II. Perhaps the war could have been avoided if Hitler had not become chancellor of Germany, or maybe World War II was inevitable because of the poor terms Germany received in the Treaty of Versailles. ChatGPT was asked to write an...

Communism has been responsible for the deaths of perhaps 100 million or more people, not to mention the countless survivors whose lives have been made miserable because of it. Karl Marx was one of the principal architects of what we now call communism. What would the world be like today if Marx...

Can an employer be both an affirmative action employer and an equal opportunity employer at the same time, or are the two positions contradictory and mutually exclusive? This question was asked to ChatGPT. The response was nuanced and somewhat left-leaning and is reported in this study

In this study, ChatGPT was given a command to write a short story on what the United States will look like in 2050. The resulting short story was well-written, but the content was similar to what someone who espouses the “woke” philosophy might write

The present study addresses the question, “How serious is tax evasion?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of tax evasion to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Poland were used to compare tax evasion to 12 other moral issues....

The present study addresses the question, “How serious is tax evasion?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of tax evasion to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Romania were used to compare tax evasion to 18 other moral issues....