passive_fist comments on Is ruthlessness in business executives ever useful? - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: Desrtopa 28 December 2012 07:46PM

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Comment author: passive_fist 28 December 2012 10:24:53PM -1 points [-]

I have a hunch that your downvotes don't indicate that people are disagreeing with you; it's just that your question is very vague and ill-posed.

If you think about it, you are basically touching on the age-old question of trying to give a rational refutation (or justification) of unethical behavior.

Your question is of course a limited version of this, namely: "Should ethical behavior, even if necessary in society at large, be temporarily suspended in business transactions?"

This is a very complicated question which I don't think can be easily answered in a forum post.