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Subject: Ethics
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: afparker-ga
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Posted: 23 Apr 2004 20:12 PDT
Expires: 23 May 2004 20:12 PDT
Question ID: 335269
If it is to your personal advantage to act unjust and the unjust act
will never be discovered, is it ethically permissible to act unjustly?
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Subject: Re: Ethics
From: pinkfreud-ga on 23 Apr 2004 20:17 PDT
 
In my own ethical code, a wrong act certainly doesn't become right
just because it won't be discovered. I can't imagine any ethical code
in which the possibility of discovery is the determining factor of
whether or not an act is ethical.
Subject: Re: Ethics
From: nautico-ga on 24 Apr 2004 03:23 PDT
 
For some reason, this question reminds me of "if a tree falls in a
forest, and there's no one there to hear it, does it make any noise?"
Or its corollary: "If a man speaks in the forest, and no woman is
there to hear him, is he still wrong?"
Subject: Re: Ethics
From: byrd-ga on 24 Apr 2004 05:09 PDT
 
"Character is doing what is right when no one is looking." - J.C. Watts

I agree. In my opinion, it is never all right to do what is wrong,
regardless of who will know or not.

See more quotes here if you're interested:
http://www.legendinc.com/Pages/ArchivesCentral/QuoteArchives/Character.html

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