Well... 2 could easily be both, or even just what linkedin said. If HR gets an alert when you start sniffing around for new opportunities, people will sniff els

Well... 2 could easily be both, or even just what linkedin said. If HR gets an alert when you start sniffing around for new opportunities, people will sniff elsewhere. Linkedin don't want that and (coincidentally) neither do users. Either way, I don't think it's the interesting question. On question 1, I think you are really on the money. Concise. We're used to thinking in terms of principles when it comes to our principles, especially laws. Realistically though, our moral codes are not like physics. They're approximations that seem to work for the most part, for the situations we know about. Being a somewhat anal retentive species, we don't generally like this. It feels like the principles are unsound.