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From The Author Of Kill Yourself: 1 Step To Success

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

Fittingly, in this last Unethicist installment of 2007, people are advised to disregard the well-being of their families and/or murder their children. You're welcome. See you next year.

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Brochures From The Underground

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a woman from Israel writes in with a shawarma question (natch), and someone in Colorado wrote a brochure and now they want a cookie or something.

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Burning Down My Master's Publishing House

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a man named Sebastian writes from Brooklyn (Bushwick, one assumes) with a Pesci-related real estate question, and if a journalist lies in an article that no one will ever read, does it waste our time?

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Medicine Is The Best Medicine

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, the proprietor of a liquor store gets told how to do his job, and a health care worker wonders if ridiculous homeopathic cures from outer-space should or should not be performed on people who recognize that the 60s ended more than 35 years ago.

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Mi Casa Es Mi Casa

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.
This week, a homeowner is so far up in his neighbor's business he should be paying rent, and some bro in Texas has this bro who cleans pools but things are totally not chill what with that pool-related committee appointment, y'know? More »

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I've Got a PhD in Shut Up

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences. More »

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You Make Keanu Reeves Look Smarter Than That Harvard Sweatshirt He Wore in "Chain Reaction"

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the 'New York Times.' Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will respond to the same questions as "The Ethicist." But you see: His answers, they may be different!

This week, a resident of California goes down the rabbit hole, and a man/woman in Albuquerque reminds us that while blood may be thicker than water, you can't inherit blood.

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"The Grudge II: The Edge of Reason"

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the 'New York Times.' "The Unethicist" is Gabriel Delahaye answering the same questions. See how that works?

This week, a dead woman in San Francisco wins The Unethicist's undying love—and a former organic-chemistry student better watch his back if he's ever invited to a Dipset party.

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The Pizza Bigotry Of Damp Expectations

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a young New Yorker wonders if it's OK to make people do their job if it's raining out, a woman in California is worried that one of her two privileged daughters is slightly more aware of her own privilege than the other, and the editor of a college newspaper pretends that anyone cares about what is printed in college newspapers.

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Milkshakes Are For Closers

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a man's wheelchair-bound father and his craving for delicious treats teaches us all an important lesson on the value of human life, and a young couple from Pennsylvania hires a female rabbi (sic) to officiate at their wedding.

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Aw, Are Your Diamond Shoes Too Tight?

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, it's all New York all the time up in these letters, with questions about sexual prostitution, and shoes that cost more than writing for the internet pays in a month.

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Pay Attention!

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

Last week was the one year anniversary of this column, and as this week's questions about medical ethics and coveting thy neighbor's ex-wife's seat at synagogue show, no one has learned anything.

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Cooking Ephedrine Out of Over-the-Counter Cold Remedies Is My Anti-Drug

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a budding young lawyer wonders if it's OK to bogart the amphetamines, and an adviser at a university in South Carolina doesn't so much ask a question as beat up your eyes with words.

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Spencer Pratt Is Is An Ass And So Are You

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

In this week's mailbag, a young man recently lost his job due to poor blogging technique, and someone in Long Island is wasting our time.

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Powerpoint To The Place On The Doll Where He Touched You

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a man finds sexual perversion in Washington (weird), and a contractor doesn't know the first thing about his trade.

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One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Trash

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week: two different white women spit in the faces of everyone. Ever.

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Full Metal Sadness

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

In this week's thrilling installment, a soldier learns a valuable lesson about his dumb lady, and a man from New Jersey is so mad about that thing that happened that one time, you know, with the car or whatever?

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"The Unethicist: SVU"

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, a lawyer with herpes spreads the love, and a young book store clerk ascends to the moral high-ground atop the horse he rode in on.

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