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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What are the current active/hot areas of research in ethics?
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All of them, really. The closest thing you'll find to a consensus in ethics is that rationalism makes sense, but there has been a resurgence of anti-rationalist thought lately, so it is still a point of contention. Everything is hot in ethics.


Some particularly active places in applied ethics are medical ethics (specifically medical consent), privacy and security (especially surrounding obligations of content creators vs. third parties) and animal rights.