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Only if you happen to agree with this guy's value judgments. He counts ad blocking and "pirating movies" as unethical! The former assumes some nonexistent cont
by ds9 13y ago
Only if you happen to agree with this guy's value judgments.
He counts ad blocking and "pirating movies" as unethical! The former assumes some nonexistent contract obligating people to do whatever a website asks, and the latter amounts to "whatever Congress decided to put in current law is your ethical obligation". Lots of principled people disagree on each of those.
Then he goes on to treat his value judgments as if they were statements of objective facts, and examines the mentality supposedly involved in rationalizing conduct he assumes is unethical - leaving a gap in his reasoning, at best. You can't reduce ethics to psychology.
It would have been more interesting if he'd taken on bigger issues. For example, "(How) can I make an honest living if all my job prospects involve exploitive practices? Is there a third way between being an antisocial hermit and a capitalistic sociopath?"