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Is it unethical to apply for a job, preventing someone else from getting the position? I want to know how far you take this 'permits hurting other people', bec

• 1attice 4y ago
  No, of course not. These are some of the edge cases I alluded to (did you read both paragraphs?) Political cartoons of erstwhile dictators and competitions for employment are exactly such edge cases. What you are groping towards is an attempt to find absurd counterexamples that throws doubt on the principle being proposed. This is fine, provided that your interlocutor didn't specifically allow for those counterexamples (which she did.) If, as a general rule, your ethic permits you to ceteris-paribus harm others, you should probably at least examine your ethic. That this sort of baseline humanism is now controversial speaks volumes about our cultural debasement.