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Part of this question was about having an idea and knowing there's clearly a legal concept but honestly was curious if people had more interesting ethical takes

Part of this question was about having an idea and knowing there's clearly a legal concept but honestly was curious if people had more interesting ethical takes that might not be as obvious. There were definitely a few cases on this thread where some people brought up ethical ideas I hadn't thought of.

brudgers 4y ago
Not being new to typing into little browser boxes, I understood you were soliciting unqualified legal opinions, but these days, I try to avoid playing the internet’s INAL game. Not always successfully). But I strive to take what other people type at face value and treat their expressed concerns seriously because sometimes it isn’t the INAL game. I always take ethics seriously — probably more seriously. But my take is probably not what you want either: if you think something might be unethical, it is unethical to do that thing. There’s no such thing as “I did it while thinking this might be unethical, but it turned out to be ethical.” [1] So my ethical advice has the same outline as my legal advice. The simplest way to avoid an ethical problem is to act in ways that do not raise ethical questions. [2] I guess it might be fair to say I don’t avoid the internet moralizing game. And fair to say I am a bit of a wet blanket at times, hazards of a philosophy degree perhaps. I don’t believe ethical discussions of hypotheticals should ever result in permission. Hypothetical permission is not permission. [1]: this is different from two acts at two different times where a change in one’s ethical framework leads to a change in ethical judgment at the times of action, and that’s different from different determinations from different states of affairs. [2]: The context here is freely chosen alternatives like using AI to create images versus using more difficult means that don’t raise your ethical uncertainty. I am not talking about Trolly Problems.

brudgers 4y ago

Not being new to typing into little browser boxes, I understood you were soliciting unqualified legal opinions, but these days, I try to avoid playing the internet’s INAL game. Not always successfully). But I strive to take what other people type at face value and treat their expressed concerns seriously because sometimes it isn’t the INAL game. I always take ethics seriously — probably more seriously. But my take is probably not what you want either: if you think something might be unethical, it is unethical to do that thing. There’s no such thing as “I did it while thinking this might be unethical, but it turned out to be ethical.” [1] So my ethical advice has the same outline as my legal advice. The simplest way to avoid an ethical problem is to act in ways that do not raise ethical questions. [2] I guess it might be fair to say I don’t avoid the internet moralizing game. And fair to say I am a bit of a wet blanket at times, hazards of a philosophy degree perhaps. I don’t believe ethical discussions of hypotheticals should ever result in permission. Hypothetical permission is not permission. [1]: this is different from two acts at two different times where a change in one’s ethical framework leads to a change in ethical judgment at the times of action, and that’s different from different determinations from different states of affairs. [2]: The context here is freely chosen alternatives like using AI to create images versus using more difficult means that don’t raise your ethical uncertainty. I am not talking about Trolly Problems.