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

[Christie Dudley]

So does anyone know any ethicists and/or moral philosophers who might be
interested in talking to a bunch of anarchists on this?  I know I'd go for
that.

Christie
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and live 10-14 years? Answer the question every morning then look at your
condition." -- Nassim N Taleb


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> :%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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