tacit has written a
post on ethics and I want to direct everyone's attention to it because it's a good thought-provoking post. But I also wanted to repost my own response to add to my "me manual".
The entry is
tacit's own response to a question about ethical considerations regarding relationship cheating. For instance, most people agree it's unethical to cheat on your partner, but many people don't think it's unethical to be the person the cheater is cheating with.
tacit's journal entry includes a poll with several situations where you are supposed to give your opinion on whether or not that situation is "ethical". Rather than repost the poll here, or the many many many responses to it that prompted my own response, I just suggest ya'll
go and read it. I'll wait.
I hadn't even made it all the way through question #2 when I came up with a "what if" to ask
tacit. These questions are very difficult to answer, especially if one is in the habit of asking "what if". But I took the poll using the simplest assumptions, sort of the Occam's Razor method to poll-taking. Then I read the responses, which are almost exclusively filled with "but what ifs".