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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6355263" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Admittedly, I was being loose in my definition. You probably don't have the luxury of ignoring the difference. I am guessing you're talking about the ethics as a definition of whether an action is correct or incorrect, and morality as a question of whether the action is right or wrong.</p><p></p><p>A lawyer or doctor, for example, is strongly tied to an ethical code he or she cannot/should not violate, even when it might seem good to do so (say, in the case of mandatory reporting of certain events or interactions - in some cases you are not allowed to keep your mouth shut, even if speaking would be bad for someone who doesn't really deserve it).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except it doesn't have to be about punishment. It can be about simply stopping further moral or ethical violations. If you don't buy goods made in sweatshops, and instead buy goods made in the same area at decent wages, you make paying a good wage more attractive. It may be that nobody is actually punished in this process - a company just realizes that paying their workers better gets people to buy, so they do so...</p><p></p><p>Again, the Market Basket example is a good one here. The person who was ousted had instituted good pay and profit sharing for workers. The remaining execs are expected to sell the chain to a more conventional owner, who would end those policies. Workers and customers want those policies to remain - the fact that the result is "punishment" is (hopefully) secondary to the real goal of incentivising the desired behavior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6355263, member: 177"] Admittedly, I was being loose in my definition. You probably don't have the luxury of ignoring the difference. I am guessing you're talking about the ethics as a definition of whether an action is correct or incorrect, and morality as a question of whether the action is right or wrong. A lawyer or doctor, for example, is strongly tied to an ethical code he or she cannot/should not violate, even when it might seem good to do so (say, in the case of mandatory reporting of certain events or interactions - in some cases you are not allowed to keep your mouth shut, even if speaking would be bad for someone who doesn't really deserve it). Except it doesn't have to be about punishment. It can be about simply stopping further moral or ethical violations. If you don't buy goods made in sweatshops, and instead buy goods made in the same area at decent wages, you make paying a good wage more attractive. It may be that nobody is actually punished in this process - a company just realizes that paying their workers better gets people to buy, so they do so... Again, the Market Basket example is a good one here. The person who was ousted had instituted good pay and profit sharing for workers. The remaining execs are expected to sell the chain to a more conventional owner, who would end those policies. Workers and customers want those policies to remain - the fact that the result is "punishment" is (hopefully) secondary to the real goal of incentivising the desired behavior. [/QUOTE]
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