| Sumario: | Three new conditions are making it harder than ever to be ethical. First, in the 20th century the sheer pace of change and growth of inventiveness have created ethical dilemmas that simply did not arise in the past. Second, the extended reach of the global news media has intensified the moral debate, and the bombardment of people with so many requests from worthy organizations engaged in profoundly moral battles has led to the risk that the ability to care is being numbed. Third, unless mental and emotional structures are found to answer essential issues, people may retreat into separatism or seek a simpler world where moral issues exist within an ordered framework. These three trends are already shaping the ethical landscape, and neither fuzzy relativism nor dogged absolutism has proved able to solve them.
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