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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5421453" data-attributes="member: 19675">I think the lack of understanding on your side at least mirrors my own.I'll rephrase:May be read as "his business is based entirely upon the labors and investments of persons he has not compensated" (a.k.a. A freeloader)Is "a business built on the labor and investments of the proprietor and those he has compensated for THEIR labor and investments"However,Is not true since no system is perfect, including ethical systems.  If there were a perfect ethical system, it would be the only one.  Instead, as pointed out before, there are many, and each may provide answers to ethical quandaries that are at odds with each other.  Ask a consequentialist ("ends justifying the means"), a utilitarian ("greatest good for greatest number) a deontologist (duty focused) and a hedonist (greatest good for yourself) the same question and you will get at least 4 different answers.Instead, the law and ethics intersect like Venn diagrams, the amount of overlap depending on the law in question and your preferred set of ethical lenses.And that is why I keep asking for specific behaviors and "why" it could be deemed unethical...because until we are arguing about one act in the light of a single ethical system, law is the only common ground of discussion.</blockquote>