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I don't think I can completely agree with that. Should a meatpacker who skirts food safety regulation get an ethical pass because they believe government regula

• watwut 9y ago
  I would give "ethical pass" when when law is forcing you to do something unethical. When you have choice between ethics and law (and it is important big ethical thing). I don't give "ethical pass" for not following law where you merely disagree with law or find it pointless or an obstacle to more money. There is also difference between "breaking law" and "not joining effort to enforce the law". Again, if I find the law bad it might be unethical to join effort to enforce it, but it might still be fully ethical to follow the law and unethical to break it. For example, unnecessary hygiene food regulation. Easy to see extreme example of law to break would be anti-jew law or fugitive slave law or something like that. The point is that breaking law is ok not merely when you disagree with law, but when it forces you to break ethics. Not just when you benefit from breaking it.