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they don't have one to begin with.
i taught business ethics for two years as a grad student. 60% of the class would write papers how ethics are stupid because the only thing that matters is maximizing company and personal profit for themselves.
ethics is a nice thing people gesture and worry about, but when push come to shove, they will shove you in front of the bus to save themselves.
Many people will literally die for their beliefs, for the sake of righteousness. But I agree, sometimes people will be immorally self-centered (very often in some cultures, especially the morally relativistic ones).
I joined a morally grey child company for a parent company that is, in my eyes, immoral. I did it to see if I could make positive change from the inside.
I don't do anything in my job that directly contributes to the stuff that I think is bad in my company, but I doubt I'll make a change at this rate. I'm too small.
I'm glad I tried but I think I'm just really stupid about how to change the world for the better.
Yes, it's hard for me to continue on. If the job market wasn't horrible and I didn't have a family to support, I'd likely be elsewhere by now.
it's not that you are stupid, it's that you're that arrogant.
you're not that morally significant. you're not a hero. you're an average person.
but every average person is under the delusion they are living heroic epic moral adventure that is their own life...
I don't think I was thinking of myself as anything but an average person, in this regard. I figured I could do my part to improve a system, then realized that there would need to be way more of people with that mindset at my level before a change would manifest.
Sorry if I gave the impression that I thought I was going to be a one man army, hahaha. Wouldn't that have been awesome?
That implies the existence of special people whose moral choices matter, and a larger population whose choices are irrelevant. Not sure that makes a lot of sense either.