On May 23, 10:37 am, jordy <I...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to be completly ethical? Is buying products from
certain corporations ethical, or recieving financial support from
people who might earn their money in questionable ways? I don't
know... Is it even possible or desireable to be 100% ethical? I like
the ethicist in the New York Times... He awnsered one of my questions
a few years ago...
-"Jordy"
Isn't it a question of knowledge? If you provide financial support
through purchasing products or investing in a company that is engaging
in unethical practices, then for your act to be unethical doesn't it
require that you have knowledge of the unethical practice. To be an
ethics violation, isn't it by definition a willful and even brazen
act?
Is it perhaps our obligation to investigate the manufacture of each
and every product we consume?
These seem to be rather extreme definitions of ethical behavior. Be
true to yourself, do what you can, use judgement in who you trust
these seem to be the precepts of ethical behavior.
Should you pursue strict allegiance to a code of ethics that requires
you to seek the knowledge and follow every trail, then I fear that you
may become a cynic. <intended as a generic statement and not directed
at you personally of course>
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