Ethics, USA
I have major problems with my computer ethics textbook because it begins with the premise that the US Constitution is the gold standard of ethics
Ethics, USA
@lunalapin ...the US Constitution
the document that needed 12 amendments before they got around to adding "oh yeah, don't do slavery"
bloody hell
Ethics, USA
@troubleMoney that part is interesting because Americans seem to treat all ammendments as being fully sublimated into the constitution; The (original) Constitution has been ammended and the final product is now what is defined as The Constitution.
It's very dogmatic in that sense.
Ethics, USA
@lunalapin huh, that's a way of looking at it I hadn't considered
I'd always look at it being a set of documents, all of which apply except when contradicted by a later document in the set, rather than as a single document
Ethics, USA
@troubleMoney Right. I think that's a more reasonable way to look at laws. Certainly provides more ideological room for change and progress.