Exploiting others is evil?
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Exploiting others is evil?
So, my question is does the fact that no one offers classes on the art of exploiting others for one's own personal benefit proves that this activity or art is evil? Or is it right to say that not all good things are being taught in schools?
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Re: Exploiting others is evil?
For me, use other people isn't bad (also, is impossible to stop doing that, you are using other people when you read them here, you are using them to learn), use other people being that use bad for them, is bad (in my ethic). What is "good" or "bad" for them, is another big question.
I only make real damage to other people when I want them to stop causing damage, and I earn nothing (I stop losing something).
Why is that good or bad (Why should a person be "good" or "evil") is a question I usually don't like to answer, I think that's something easy enough to understand when you have some kind of mind, and impossible to understand if you don't have that kind of mind, for me, it's evident that causing damage to good people is bad for me. Of course, that's selfish too.
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Re: Exploiting others is evil?
You've never heard of an MBA program? Trump University? Or books like "How to Profit from an Economic Crisis" and "The Prince"?Empiricist-Bruno wrote:I was just wondering here if the fact that no one offers classes on the art of exploiting others for one's own personal benefit constitute proof that doing such thing is bad or evil. Yes, the art of exploiting others for one's own personal benefit is being taught but never in a direct and open manner. It is only being taught by following the lead of evil individuals.
So, my question is does the fact that no one offers classes on the art of exploiting others for one's own personal benefit proves that this activity or art is evil? Or is it right to say that not all good things are being taught in schools?
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Re: Exploiting others is evil?
-- Updated December 22nd, 2016, 5:38 pm to add the following --
Exploitation does not have to be taught. Only a touchstone proposition used to justify a sense of entitlement and with that bad boundaries. Some people today promote a theory of progress and with that a theory of corruption considered to be an obstacle to progress. This causes an in-group and out-group type of thinking
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