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Ethics are a personal construct outside the law. (In some narrow cases, like psychiatry it's enforced, but that's the exception and doesn't apply here.) In oth
by bruce511 3y ago
Ethics are a personal construct outside the law. (In some narrow cases, like psychiatry it's enforced, but that's the exception and doesn't apply here.)
In other words ethics are whatever you say they are. And polling the internet for permission will turn up a mix of aye and nay.
Is it -legal-? That's a different question, and "ethical " questions are usually a prelude to breaking some law under the implication that the law is "unjust".
As an aside I presume you are a -customer- of said company? Since GPL rights only applies to those with a legal, binary, copy.
- vr46 3y agoEthics are more universal, if anything - don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t play anything by Creed or Kenny G over loudspeakers, that kind of thing. Things everyone can get behind. Morality tends to be an implementation of ethics, like respecting the dead by leaving them to be eaten by vultures, or burying them instead.
- eqvinox 3y ago>> Ethics are a personal construct > Ethics are more universal Both of these statements will have philosophers up in arms ;D Whether morals (and transitively ethics) are universal or context dependent is an unanswered (and possibly undecidable) problem in philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism
- vr46 3y agoAgreed and I was well-aware when commenting, hence the flippancy! I guess I’m from the Simon Blackburn school where relativism is a threat to ethics…