Re: Ethics and Job-Hunting
Oh, I seriously doubt that anyone said ethics would be forgotten.
Well, to be exact, they implied that the ethics of protecting your family would take precedence over your principles in every case. I worded it poorly, maybe.
It's unethical to allow my family to be hurt, to let myI've known a number of people who placed their principles before anything else, so let me play devil's advocate here: Isn't it also ethical to provide your children a high ethical standard?
child starve or go without health care, if there's anything I can do to
prevent it. That's ethics.
On one hand, you could say that food and health come before principles - which is true in the sense that if you don't have them, you won't have principles very long, either. On the other hand, is survival worthwhile if you abandon principles?
Not an easy answer, and one I hope never to make.
Did you really mean "inconvenience themselves?"This is understatement. In the same style, I might talk about "the unpleasantness of World War II."
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And they called for a priest and a couple of friends,
And they all stood around and chanted, Amen."
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