Illegal but Ethical

[bradmcmahon at gmail.com (Bradley McMahon)]

um any great revolution that relieved the country from an oppressor can be
considered ethical but Illegal, the US revolution was illegal (treason) and
ethical, while the British Monarchy was legal but unethical. These terms are
highly relative so it really matters on the times you live in. What may
seemed ethical to Jefferson, Adams,... seemed unethical by the King
and aristocracy.
I think your asking too much from a business prof to understand the finer
details of ethics, I bet your the first person to actually pose a
challenging question in his class. Good luck on your masters.
-Brad



On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:00 AM, gold flake <ptinstructor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mohandas Gandhi's life and his work best exemplifies this
> contradiction.  To the Britishers what he was doing was completely
> illegal (and recognising this as such, he willingly suffered jail
> terms) but to the millions of Indians yearning for freedom, his civil
> disobedience activities were absolutely ethical.
>
>
>
>
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> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I was listening to the Thomas Wilhelm interview, and the ethics part
> got
> > my attention. I recently got in academic trouble at school because I said
> > something can be illegal but ethical, and in the teacher's mind I would
> not
> > let it go. I think I brought it up three times, in context, and it took
> > about 3 min of class time. I used the classic "Are there Jews in your
> > basement", and lying about it if there are,  asked in Nazi Germany as and
> > example where something is illegal, but ethical. I was slamed later
> because
> > this is "extreme" and "not business related" and in the complaint I was
> > slammed as "anti-law" and "anti-ethics". Is seems in the tech field,
> there
> > are many examples of items that a business related, illegal but ethical.
> A
> > few examples:
> >
> > Cleanflicks buying DVDs, making edited copies to rent, and keeping the
> > originals in storage (DMCA violation)
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks
> >
> > Posting prpitary data that shows voting machines to be vulnerable (DMCA
> > again)
> > http://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold
> >
> > I might be able to tie this in as well
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
> >
> > Any other examples you can think of with items that are business related,
> > illegal but ethical? Got a good reverse engenering example?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adrian
> >
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