2008-07-25, 08:08 PM
The ultimate issue everybody here has to contend with is:
If you can justify to yourself the murder of an innocent for money, you then have no reason to complain when someone else, (be it an individual or a corporate entity or whatever,) also uses shady means to gain profit. Some of the people here might be mad at Nexon for being greedy, or Microsoft being greedy, or Bush being greedy and giving profits to the oil companies, etc. You cannot even be mad at the Italian mob doing rackets or assassinating people.
I mean, how can you justify being mad at those companies and individuals when you just justified 1st degree murder for money? It seems more than a bit inconsistent.
My point is, you have to keep your own personal ethics clean in order to with good conscience judge those you feel have erred. If you live with "selective morality" and are openly proud of it, then that can be a problem in certain circumstances.
If you can justify to yourself the murder of an innocent for money, you then have no reason to complain when someone else, (be it an individual or a corporate entity or whatever,) also uses shady means to gain profit. Some of the people here might be mad at Nexon for being greedy, or Microsoft being greedy, or Bush being greedy and giving profits to the oil companies, etc. You cannot even be mad at the Italian mob doing rackets or assassinating people.
I mean, how can you justify being mad at those companies and individuals when you just justified 1st degree murder for money? It seems more than a bit inconsistent.
My point is, you have to keep your own personal ethics clean in order to with good conscience judge those you feel have erred. If you live with "selective morality" and are openly proud of it, then that can be a problem in certain circumstances.