Journal gmhowell's Journal: A question of morals, ethics, and blame 12
If you want something to happen that might be against your own morals, and you get someone else to do it, should you still feel bad? Should you be held responsible?
Note: nothing illegal, merely immoral or perhaps unethical.
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Holding you responsible is what others do, and is a way of taking punishment, which is much easier than blame for the conscientious. If you consider the act immoral, it is up to
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'Feeling bad' is nice, but that's only the beginning of responsibility. Shouldn't actions be taken beyond 'feeling bad'?
That's Good (Score:2)
Action is the most important thing, though, and by that I mean wise action, not merely action that makes you feel better quicker. For example: telling someone the truth about something that you would rather hide from them might lead you to dwell more upon things that you could have patched up, and learn from them better. Sometimes, discretion is the
An alternate opinion: Yes (Score:2)
If you "allowed" someone to do it, since they were going to do it anyway, then less so, but to some extent still yes if you could have stopped them. If it was inevitable, then No, and schadenfreude is just fine.
My "No" wasn't a real "No" (Score:2)
I love these questions. (Score:2)
Does having someone else do it make it "better"?
Dealing out deeds to others can sometimes be quite worse than doing the deed yourself, because you've stepped beyond the doer to be the manager. You've taken that extra step to say that not only are you willing to bend your morals to allow the deed, but you are willing to stain the hands of others in order to ensure the deed be carried out. It is even worse when your intention for doing so is to make yourself feel a little less
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To me, yes (Score:2)
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I went to a Jesuit school and we had all kinds of arguments about this. With that and my experiences of the Democrat machine of South Jersey, any time any government or large entity says they're there to help I am extremely wary. Unless, of course, it's Joe Kennedy [youtube.com]. Good job, Joe. Nice we get cheap gas off the back of Venezuelans. I wish Republicans had thought of that.
Hugo's showing us by giving us cheap fuel. Smart man, that one. Soon he won't have to worry about pri [google.com]
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