[nmh]

"Actually, this is a good trend... just provide the facts, and let people make their own judgements based on them, rather than coming up with grand theories to match the facts (or, what happens more often, come up with facts that match the theories)."

LOL!

History repeats itself. There is nothing new under the sun in this area. I disagree to push situational ethics or this idiotic non judgmental crap.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

" I disagree to push situational ethics or this idiotic non judgmental crap."

This isn't the same as situational ethics. When I studied economics, we were taught to separate the "normative" (judgments about what the ideal should be, according to your values) from the factual (what is happening, what is likely to happen). As other posters have said -- we report, you decide.

Read Sonny M's #39 -- economists tend to believe in an objective reality -- many in other social sciences tend to think that reality is more subjective. Situational ethics follows from that post-modern view.