ethical values

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Some senior managers at the Co-op have complained of a "toxic culture" at the executive level of the 180-year-old member-owned food and services group that prides itself on its ethical values.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

For example, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson recently asked OpenAI founder Sam Altman about his own spiritual and religious convictions and how Altman and OpenAI decide on which ethical values to give preference to in ChatGPT.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

“Through our sharing of spiritual and ethical values, we get to know one another.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

Few of us live in utopian communities, but many of us pledge allegiance — implicitly or explicitly — to lofty political and ethical values.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

As phases in the "presuppositions" of economic value, then, coördinate with "marginal utility," our theory puts the legal and ethical values concerned with distribution, which rule in a community at a given time.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)