Cheating on your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend is legal, but unethical, though the rule against it is perhaps more honoured in the breach.Breaking promises is generally legal, but is widely thought of as unethical.Most kinds of lying are perfectly legal, but lying is generally recognized as being unethical.So let’s make the case explicitly, and explain why legality doesn’t determine ethics.įirst, we can proceed by enumerating a few counter-examples: Of course, the student - my student - knew better, and related the story to me while rolling his eyes. You might think it’s obvious, but it’s not, as evidenced by the fact that a former student recently told me that his Finance professor explicitly told him that if something is legal, it’s ethical…full stop. The fact that something is legal doesn’t make it ethical.
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