In regards to Weber's ethical ratings system; whilst the idea of 'ethics made easy' is appealing, I think it has a very serious flaw -- Ethics is about assertive action, not passive compliance.
Ethics over-simplified takes away the most important aspect of being an "ethical" person -- actually having to consider and understand your own actions and your place within a society.
It takes away the intellectual discourse that's part of ethics and just sticks the equivalent of digital Good and Bad sticker on products. That's potentially very dangerous.
Glad someone else made this point. I find it disturbing how these 'ethics' adopt the vernacular of religion, there seems to be an in-built assumption that some greater power must decide what is 'righteous' and what is not, that the label is implicit and that the consumer need bother no further with the troublesome business of thinking for him/herself.
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Date: 2008-07-05 11:17 am (UTC)Ethics over-simplified takes away the most important aspect of being an "ethical" person -- actually having to consider and understand your own actions and your place within a society.
It takes away the intellectual discourse that's part of ethics and just sticks the equivalent of digital Good and Bad sticker on products. That's potentially very dangerous.
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Date: 2008-07-05 02:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-06 11:19 am (UTC)I find it disturbing how these 'ethics' adopt the vernacular of religion, there seems to be an in-built assumption that some greater power must decide what is 'righteous' and what is not, that the label is implicit and that the consumer need bother no further with the troublesome business of thinking for him/herself.
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