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For most people, so called ethics only enter into
things if they don't like the price. I'm reminded
of a joke in which an old man asks a young woman
if she would sleep with him for a million dollars.
She says that she would. He then asks her if she
would sleep with him for five buck. "What do you
think I am?" she asks, "A whore?" "We've established
that," he answers. "We're now dickering over price."
When you turn some project down for "ethical"
reasons, is it because of that, or is it because
the price wasn't high enough? When you accept a
project that someone else might find dubious, is
it because you have different values, or is it
because the price was right (or your need was
strong)?
I can't see this as an ethical dilemna if your
management is making the project voluntary and
you're going to get paid regardless. So, anon,
if you hadn't faced an ethical dilemna before,
you still haven't faced one, IMHO.
And for those of you who think it's okay what
your company does or who they deal with so long
as YOU don't have to dirty your hands, I ask
this question: "If your family was hungry, and
it was take the job or watch them starve, what
would you do?"
Now you find out what kind of principles you have.
Everything else is a matter of taste.
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