>I am a total believer in political correctness as a general courtesy to people What about in private, among a group of friends? Should the degree of correctne

>I am a total believer in political correctness as a general courtesy to people What about in private, among a group of friends? Should the degree of correctness be uniform or proportional to the size of the audience? It seems to me that the purpose of the ethics board is to allow a company to be left alone to get on with its private ethically-laden research. It needs to be seen to be ethically responsible and nowadays that requires ultra-political correctness because more people than ever are watching. But this is incompatible with having actual ethics discussions which require diversity of opinion. So there's a dilemma: trying to be ethical versus trying to be seen to be ethical.