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> no point in being ethical if no one notices. No meaning to ethics if this is your philosophy.
by jpwright 13y ago
> no point in being ethical if no one notices.
No meaning to ethics if this is your philosophy.
- SamReidHughes 13y ago> No meaning to ethics if this is your philosophy. What's the basis for the belief (you seem to hold) that it's more ethical to silently tolerate unethical practices instead of outing them publicly?
- jaredsohn 13y agoI don't think the GP is saying that; I think the GP is saying that to be ethical you do something that is right regardless of if you get credit for it. And in practice, publicly stating that you turned in your company for something (even if morally right) can hurt you when you apply to other companies since if they learn of it they are likely wondering if you would accuse them of something if you worked there.
- SamReidHughes 13y agoOh, okay. That makes sense if we take that sentence out of context and treat its wording literally, so now I understand what your GP was saying. However, the real meaning of that sentence as used in your GGP is that these so-called "ethical" choices you might make aren't actually ethical if they don't have any impact on the world. That is, leaving a company because it performs unethical behavior does not stop the unethical behavior from continuing, and so your leaving is merely an ethically neutral action (in fact, by remaining silent, you're enabling further unethical behavior).
- toadi 13y agoThis is ethical and that is not ethical doesn't exist as discussion: "ethics does not provide rules like morals but it can be used as a means to determine moral values" The way it should be stated it's against my moral values. Not everyone's moral values are aligned. Thus rendering this discussion unusable for me as I don't know against what moral value we are judging these actions.
- SamReidHughes 13y agoEthical has exactly the same meaning as moral outside of specific contexts.