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Ron.M -> RE: Ethical conundrum (Jul. 20 2010 13:02:42)
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I would leave any kind of "Karmic Justice" to Aesop's Fables..
There are plenty examples of inequality and unfairness all around us.
What I have noticed over the years is that "legal dishonesty" is now accepted as normal business practice.
That is, a business behaving in such a way that to the average person it seems like a cheat or a scam, or at the very least, sharp practice.
However, the businesses have taken care to remain just a hair's width within the written word of the Law.
30 years ago it was the fly-by-night, shady small businesses who would be featured on TV Consumer programmes...but now the large "respectible" companies, such as Airlines, Banks, Phone Companies, Utility Companies, Property Companies all practice this as "normal" business.
Private "clamping" companies working for the council partially cover "No Parking" or "Restricted Waiting" signs up then lie in wait for a mug to park for 5 minutes so they can clamp the car and charge them £90 to have it removed.
If you refuse to pay, they tow the car away and charge you £350 + a daily storage charge if you want it back.
All perfectly "legal" dear boy, all perfectly legal.
There has been a generational change in ethics IMO and younger folk either don't care about it or just accept it as normal everyday life since, well, they have practically grown up in this environment.
In all my life, I've never known such a time of scamming and folk being so self-serving such that I find it hard to take anyone's advice at face value, be it a Lawyer, Doctor, Accountant etc without thinking if the advice is being given to help me, or help themselves.
I mean..who believes any Politician these days?
I even heard a programme where NHS Transplant surgeons carried out transplants knowingly using sub-optimal donor organs because they had "targets" to meet and beds to clear and didn't have the time to wait until some more suitable organ became available.
Of course, the pressure came from the NHS Hospital Managers, who also had targets to meet if they were to receive their bonuses at the end of the year.
The part which shocked me most was someone received the heart of a Heroin addict who had hanged himself and the heart had been stopped for some minutes by the time he was found, so was thought to be a bit "iffy".
(Nice...huh?)
All perfectly legal and ethical and nobody did anything "wrong".
cheers,
Ron
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