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News: February/March 2021

Time travel “possible without paradoxes&rduqo; • Legal ethics pioneer dies • Germany bans slaughter of male chicks — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Ethics For All

In Austria, a law has been passed that states students from Year 9 onwards who have chosen not to participate in religious studies classes, an option that is open to them, have to attend ethics classes instead. However, a new initiative, Ethics For All, argues that separate classes for the discussion of moral problems are a bad idea. The organisers believe that there is a need for a shared ethics debate, regardless of confessional or other differences. A petition organised by Ethics For All has exceeded the required 100,000 signatures for consideration in parliament. Ethics For All spokesperson Eytan Reif is not surprised: refering to a survey they commissioned six months ago, he says that 70 percent of the Austrian population seem to favour common ethics classes for all children.

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