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"Aaron Swartz ... was a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics"
by rryan 15y ago
"Aaron Swartz ... was a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics"
- llimllib 15y agoIt is not impossible to imagine a code of morality which views his alleged actions as ethical.
- rryan 15y agoDefinitely true -- I thought it was a relevant bit of information so I quoted it.
- llimllib 15y agoThat's fair, I was just refuting what your comment implied, that it was an unethical action. (I understand that you may not have intended to imply it. Just wanted to put that out there.) So since we don't disagree on that: Do you think what he did is ethical? edit: also, boston.com says he "is a fellow at Harvard’s University’s Center for Ethics". A quick google says that he was at least as of October 2010: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swartz+ethics+fellow+site%3Aharvard.edu&oq=swartz+ethics+fellow+site%3Aharvard.edu&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=9112l11062l0l11132l16l12l2l0l0l6l170l1142l4.6l10 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swartz+ethics+fello...
- nickpinkston 15y agoI'd argue that he's fully ethical and it's our laws that are on the wrong side here. Pity the latter have the guns...
- samlevine 15y agoThe only reason he's not a hero is that he didn't put all the PDFs up on a torrent. We are the library now.
- JohnnyBrown 15y agoWouldn't any code of ethics endorsed by Harvard view hacking MIT as a virtuous act?
- saint-loup 15y agoI guess it's the perfect occasion to link to the work of Eric Schwitzgebel: http://schwitzsplintersethicsprofs.blogspot.com/ http://schwitzsplintersethicsprofs.blogspot.com/ "Do Ethicists Steal More Books?" is particularly tasty.