RE: FW: More ethics... (long, of course)

Subject: RE: FW: More ethics... (long, of course)
From: "Eric J. Ray (remote)" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:16:59 -0600 (MDT)


> Our set of laws are in place to provide a safe and hopefully somewhat
> civilized society. However, when a law is written they simply can't take all
> contingencies into account.
>
> Laws in general aren't this bad, but it reminds me a little of
> zero-tolerance policies in schools. There have been some astoundingly absurd
> situations arise from the fact that a school decided to substitute a
> zero-tolerance policy for good old-fashioned common sense.
...
>
> Yes, these examples are fairly rare exceptions. But IMHO, they are examples
> where it might be immoral and unethical to follow the letter of the law. But
> I think common sense might come into play with any of these exceptions on
> the side of breaking the law in some cases.

This is getting pretty far afield from technical communication.
Can we please bring it back to the topic?

As a starting point (and a means to gracefully segue back to
tech writing), I'd love to know why more than 10% of the
people who responded to this week's poll use pirated or
unlicensed software to do their tech writing jobs.

Eric
ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com
TECHWR-L Listowner



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