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Since we're in a free market economy, we really should be forcing companies to be ethical by voting with our dollars (or, in today's online work, site visits).
by taborj 7y ago
Since we're in a free market economy, we really should be forcing companies to be ethical by voting with our dollars (or, in today's online work, site visits).
The problem is not enough people give it enough thought.
> If Google and Uber have to be ethical, doesn't Blackwater/Xe/Academi have to be ethical?
The problem with this argument is Blackwater/Xe/Academi serve a specific niche that inherently straddles the line of ethicality. They're not akin to Google or Uber; they don't have "general purpose" products that everyone needs/wants. Ergo it's not as black and white as Google and Uber (which in itself isn't as black and white as we'd like to think).
- jiveturkey 7y agoWait, do I hear you correctly? Google and Uber have to be ethical because we expect them to be, and Blackwater does not have to be ethical because we don't expect it of them?
- fourthark 7y agoExpectations do matter?
- taborj 7y ago> Wait, do I hear you correctly? Not precisely. Mainly I'm saying we can more easily affect Google and Uber's ethics than we can Blackwater, because we're generally not going after the services that Blackwater provides. Add to the fact that Blackwater doesn't always operate within societal norms, and the issue becomes complex. Is it ethical to kill someone? What if that someone is killing other people? Google and Uber don't have to worry about that. Blackwater does.