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Anon tries to be ethical
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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I'm with the professor on this. If you self-identify as a mostly unethical person, I'd fire you too. I disagree with encouraging him to lie in the future though. 2 times out of 3, this guy says he'll make a shady choice.
The professor can’t be right, he said no judgement, be honest and judged an honest answer not for the frame of mind that lead anon to believe it, but rather for being honest (which he himself asked it to be), so I can’t see any valuable lesson here.
That's right everyone, the ethical thing to do is lie and the professor was right to publicly shame anon for not lying. What a great point to make.
The scale is subjectively relative though. Maybe anon feels that because they eat meat, don't recycle, don't tip well, etc, that he is acting unethically. By that scale, he's probably significantly much more ethical than someone without that awareness.
Plenty of self hating people from former hyper religious households out there too. A lot of people in general, who hate themselves and don't come from a religious household.
If a job asks you to rate your own morality, 9/10 times it's a shit job as jobs worth having don't ask this kind of bullshit.
So any firing would be sparing someone from a shitty employment.
The irony being that the person who rates themselves as unethical is actually likely to be one of the most ethical people answering; someone truly unethical would've lied about it in the first place, or failed to even notice or acknowledge their unethicalness.
I disagree. People like this will put any of their own gain above their morality. And if we look at this rationally, sure at first that means you will start living comfortable. But if everyone does what you do, the world around you would suck. And I'm sorry, I don't want the world around me to suck, even if I have to sacrifice some potential gain for that.
And this is why, even as a completely egotistical asshole, your goals should be noble, even if only for your own sake.
And this is also why no one should promote lying if there's not a damn good reason. This is not a damn good reason.
And on top of that, he's so stupid that the 1 on 3 he does the right thing is revealing that. If not fired for being un ethical, fire because he's an idiot.