Fuzzy Ethics
By Kris | August 22nd, 2006 No Comments »I was referred to an interesting post by a good friend the other day. The post, found here is a reminder to me that right and wrong too often get misconstrued.
I guess there are a lot of things I could say here, but suffice it to say the main problem with ethics, as demonstrated well in this instance, is that as a society we have lost sight of the fact that there are certain unchanging truths. That is to say, some laws are universal and just don’t change, sadly, too many discussions on what is right and wrong have blurred the reality of right and wrong, and we get what is today known as situational ethics, or a la carte morals.
My Two Cents: yes the person paid for the album through a pre-order system, but to download the album through a site like Bittorrent isn’t right because the person posting the music files on Bittorrent isn’t the owner of the rights to the music. In a very general legal sense it is being an accomplice to a crime; but it serves as a nice rationalizating strategy for those involved in file sharing.
