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Ethics
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: afparker-ga List Price: $3.00 |
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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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. |
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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?" |
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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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