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This thread is to discuss whether people feel that something is unethical, not to find out what the law*/T&C says.

Any Halachic questions should be posted here.

*According to CountValentine this includes religion, but unfortunately for him, the general consensus is that religion will always be entwined in this thread.

*Hint* If you have to ask, It's most likely not ethical.
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #920 on: April 21, 2013, 10:43:46 PM »
I think that the point being brought up is this question:
Why should someone have any consideration at all for someone else unless 1) G-D said so or 2) it will benefit him by there being a functioning society?
Why shouldn't the US nuke the USSR (or vise versa, going back a few years) other than because 1) G-d doesn't want or 2) Mutually assured destruction? Considering that the USSR was atheist 2 may have been the only reason it did not happen.

Many religious sects felt that it was very ethical to kill those who disagreed with their religious beliefs as have many other sects over the centuries (even today). Part of Nazism ym"s was the belief that it was their evolutionary duty for the "master race" to subjugate others.
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #921 on: April 21, 2013, 10:47:42 PM »
It was opened a long time ago. You just kicked it over.  :)

I will let someone else clean up my mess. One second, is that ethical?
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #922 on: April 21, 2013, 10:51:02 PM »
I will let someone else clean up my mess. One second, is that ethical?
I will answer from an ethical point of view and so no. You can handle the religious point of view.  ;)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #923 on: April 21, 2013, 11:29:43 PM »
Wiki updated to include current events. :)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #924 on: April 21, 2013, 11:36:07 PM »
Wiki updated to include current events. :)
You trying to start a Wiki war?  >:(   :)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #925 on: April 22, 2013, 09:00:18 AM »
I find it ironic we are discussing ethics when most here could care less if something is ethical or not.
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I can point to a dozen of posts by EACH of the participants of this discussion, you'll be ROTFL to see how 'ethical' they are.

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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #926 on: April 22, 2013, 09:02:02 AM »
+100

I can point to a dozen of posts by EACH of the participants of this discussion, you'll be ROTFL to see how 'ethical' they are.

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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #927 on: April 22, 2013, 09:06:02 AM »
This has become the most worthless thread on DDF.  :( :( :'(

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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #928 on: April 22, 2013, 09:06:12 AM »
+100

I can point to a dozen of posts by EACH of the participants of this discussion, you'll be ROTFL to see how 'ethical' they are.

Folks, take life easy and enjoy it, otherwise you'll not enjoy it.
Maybe you should go into politics seeing the way you just twisted for your own benefit what I said.
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #929 on: April 22, 2013, 09:06:39 AM »
This has become the most worthless thread on DDF.  :( :( :'(
Time for a poll?  :)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #930 on: April 22, 2013, 10:02:38 AM »
+100

I can point to a dozen of posts by EACH of the participants of this discussion, you'll be ROTFL to see how 'ethical' they are.

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I take you up on your offer. LMAO :)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #931 on: April 22, 2013, 12:34:07 PM »
Is it possible that these discussions can be forked. I like reading the specific ethical discussions in this thread, not the meta discussions
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #932 on: April 22, 2013, 02:21:20 PM »
Is it possible that these discussions can be forked. I like reading the specific ethical discussions in this thread, not the meta discussions

What about the meta meta discussion that you just brought up? Should that be forked off too?
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #933 on: April 22, 2013, 02:21:58 PM »
What about the meta meta discussion that you just brought up? Should that be forked off too?
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #934 on: April 22, 2013, 02:40:55 PM »
What about the meta meta discussion that you just brought up? Should that be forked off too?
Know stop that. Do as I say not as I do.  :)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #935 on: April 22, 2013, 03:14:13 PM »
now stop that. Do as I say not as I do.  :)
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #936 on: April 22, 2013, 04:02:16 PM »
:P to you too
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #937 on: April 22, 2013, 05:40:13 PM »
Do as I say not as I do.  :)
I always found people who say that to be 'ethically challenged'.

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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #938 on: April 22, 2013, 09:55:20 PM »
Would it be ethical to "borrow" points from Amex by paying for something now, and returning it later? You would rack up other purchases to cover the points you got, and this way you would have an advance on the points you would anyways get later. I don't believe in stealing the points as some do by returning on different card, but to me borrowing points would sound ok. And yes, I do know that amex allows the borrowing of up to 15k.
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Re: Is It Ethical?
« Reply #939 on: April 22, 2013, 10:28:15 PM »
Would it be ethical to "borrow" points from Amex by paying for something now, and returning it later? You would rack up other purchases to cover the points you got, and this way you would have an advance on the points you would anyways get later. I don't believe in stealing the points as some do by returning on different card, but to me borrowing points would sound ok. And yes, I do know that amex allows the borrowing of up to 15k.
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