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They explain that: because professional ethics are enforced. If some licensing panel finds you violated the documented ethics, your career in that field can be
by frankenbagel 3y ago
They explain that: because professional ethics are enforced. If some licensing panel finds you violated the documented ethics, your career in that field can be over… for life.
- hackyhacky 3y agoMinor detail, but the author is female.
- frankenbagel 3y agoThank you, my bad, moved to gender neutral “they”.
- k__ 3y agoI find that's a bit too handwavy. Why would you redefine something as fundamental as a fact, that's quite different from an opinion, as "the opinion that a group enforces"? The repercussions if you violate those opinions might have factual consequences for you, but that makes the basis for all this not more factual.
- FishInTheWater 3y agoFor personal ethics, they are mere opinion as you get to choose what those ethics are. For professional ethics, those ethics are the opinions of the relevant professional associations and regulatory bodies. They are facts in the sense that "The Bar believes that it is unethical to lie to the court" is a fact. It is simply factually true that the legal profession holds that ethics belief. And thus the point, anyone who seeks to join such a profession has to accept their ethics "as if" they were facts. You can't choose other professional ethics in the sense that you can choose to hold a different opinion.
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