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What if that is the sole country you do business in and you are legally forbidden from closing your business (as can happen to a business that produces essentia
by EthanHeilman 13y ago
What if that is the sole country you do business in and you are legally forbidden from closing your business (as can happen to a business that produces essential war materials)?
The problem that is that companies are not above the law, but they are even less above ethics. The primary reason that we argue that companies should follow the law is ethics and when ethics and the law are in conflict ethics always trumps the law.
- chris_wot 13y agoThat's an extreme situation. I would disobey this law.
- wavefunction 13y agoYou're running a hypothetical munitions factory whose sole client is the government and you're worrying about the ethics and morality of having to comply with the laws of that country? Let's worry about the morals and ethics of operating that munitions factory before we get concerned with "unjust" laws.