[Noisebridge-discuss] moral philosophy; was: Jacob Applebaum detained upon arriving in U.S.

Naomi Most pnaomi at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 01:41:32 UTC 2010


:%s/ruthless/oblivious/g

Ethical business practices actually make better businesses.  If
competitive engineer types could look beyond their own noses, they'd
see they're running the wrong race.  Statistically, only a few Real
Assholes get ahead and stay ahead by being unethical.  It's just a bad
bet.

This isn't the article I was trying to pull on the study of the
longevity of businesses vis-a-vis ethics, but it covers a lot of good
points:

http://www.survivalinsight.com/making-ethical-business-decisions.html

--Naomi


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
> That's actually a brilliant idea.  In college all the engineers were
> required to take ethics courses.   You'd be amazed how ruthless engineers
> can be.  =P
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> wrote:
>  It is a pleasure to know that there is a group
>  of people so devoted to shoring up the foundation
>  of democracy.
>
> ...as to have formed an techno-anarchist hippie collective named
> Noisebridge.
>
> but never forget:
> http://monochrom.at/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=369&blogId=1
>
> and: the whole wikileaks case is a classic example of moral philosophy (aka
> ethics) and is worth 25 classes on the subject. you really should get a
> philosopher and/or moral psychologist to give a lecture and have an open
> discussion. we are planning something like that in vienna...
> a good read is jon haidt's five moral senses:
> http://monochrom.at/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=397&blogId=1
>
> cheers
> johannes
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