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I don't view keeping your word or not cheating against a unilateral agreement as a virtue. Doing the moral thing in many of those situations requires going aga
by solarmist 3y ago
I don't view keeping your word or not cheating against a unilateral agreement as a virtue.
Doing the moral thing in many of those situations requires going against the laws or rules of those unjust systems. In other words, it requires cheating for the purpose of changing the system.
Civil rights disobedience, Gandhi's fight for independence in India, fighting against monopolies, and unionizing all require rejecting others' rules or laws which you feel are immoral.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 3y agoSir, you appear to be arguing with the Arch-Boomer. The rules were written (and re-written, and re-re-written) for him for the better part of a century - do you think he's open to any other way?
- solarmist 3y agoI envy him in a way. Everything’s so black and white. I wish everything had been stacked in my favor that way.
- WalterBright 3y agoIf you develop a reputation for integrity and honor, things will stack in your favor. If you go around telling people that it's fine to steal from them, do you think they'll consider doing business with you? I wouldn't. I had a conversation once with the contractor who was fixing my roof. He said that he'd have a customer now and then who didn't pay. He said the roofing contractors all knew each other, and they kept a list of those customers and would refuse to bid on jobs for them.
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- Apocryphon 3y agoHow often would the client need roofing work done anyway?
- WalterBright 3y agoI did not say honor had anything to do with the law. I've explicitly said it was different from the law. You're simply not reading what I did write.