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See, This is what people mean by "shades of gray" - And yeah, I was pushing 30 before I figured this out (and amusingly, I read a lot of philosophy in my teen
by lsc 11y ago
See, This is what people mean by "shades of gray" - And yeah, I was pushing 30 before I figured this out (and amusingly, I read a lot of philosophy in my teens and 20s trying to figure this out. Which... actually helps; you read enough, and you find that only crazies are certain of themselves. There aren't really answers to be had of the absolute sort, not in philosophy.)
Yes, nothing you do is going to absolutely harm no one else; No job is going to be absolutely "good" from a ethical perspective. Life is messy, and perhaps more to the point, ethics are messy.
However... this doesn't mean that some things aren't better than other things.
Most people would agree that, say, the way you are usually expected to act as a surgeon, when working for, say, an organization like doctors without borders is more ethical than the way you are expected to act when working in sales or finance, say, for a company like Enron, even if you are expected or required (to keep the job) to do some things we might agree are unethical as a surgeon.