Investigating The Duty to Yelp - Source Notes by Stephen Harrison

Investigating the "Duty to Yelp"

If you go to the same restaurant over and over, do you incur a moral obligation to review them on Yelp, Google Reviews, or LinkedIn? What about other types of businesses?

To answer these questions, I reached out to Zoë A. Johnson King, a faculty fellow at NYU who specializes in ethics and the philosophy of action. Our conversation involved utilitarianism, deontology, moral virtues ... and tacos.

>> Read my latest piece "When the Duty to Yelp Kicks In" Over at Slate

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