“Who here believes Facebook is unethical?” [hands rise]
“Okay, who here has added a tracking pixel to a site at a client’s request?” [hands sheepishly rise]
“Okay, now we return to the trolley problem…”
A++++ #drupalcon session by @drnikki
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To be fair it's a matter of scale. "Who thinks embezzling $100M from a charity is unethical?" "OK who's ever stolen a pack of gum?"
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Ethics is not about size, so the gum argument doesn't hold. If you said bread to feed your starving family, then it might be ethical. See the "veil of ignorance argument."
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Implying that someone who has done "unethical" things with relatively small impact has no ground to criticize world-altering-scale unethical acts is disingenuous and harmful.
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Context: she wasn’t suggesting that people were hypocrites! Rather, exploring the ethical tangliness of direct participation, etc… this the trolley problem!
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