Do you have a favorite ethicist?

certainly can't argue with

Perhaps the second best-known Walt Kelly quotation is another one of Pogo's philosophical observations: "Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." Kelly's widow Selby re-used the line as a tribute, in a poignant daily strip which ran on Christmas Day, 1973—two months after Kelly's death.

"spare the child the rod, and you spoil the child"

‘Ethicist’ Randy Cohen Out at New York Times Magazine
2/4/11 at 2:38 PM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/02/ethicist_randy_cohen_out_at_ne.html