Law in Contemporary Society

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JobsAsComplicity 4 - 04 Feb 2010 - Main.AerinMiller
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 One reason Eben gave for not working at a firm was that firms do morally undesirable work, and that in working for a firm, one's work would actively be contributing to that overall morally undesirable work product. For example, if one was a big-firm lawyer over the past five years or so, one most likely actively contributed to the financial crisis by providing the legal work for allowing grossly unchecked mortgage-backed securities to be created and flipped for fast profit.

My question: Is it true in every job, you are always morally complicit in the work of the company? Note than an answer of yes would mean that when you work for an organization that actively does good, you are also actively doing good. Is there ever any way to dissociate oneself morally from the work of the company in which one participates?

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 -- AndrewCascini - 04 Feb 2010
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On the morally neutral question:

I don't think that every potential employer can be classified as morally good or morally bad, as if there is some sort of justice scale on which their "good" (recycling program) and "bad" (criminal defense) parts can be weighed, which leads me to believe that the great majority are nothing but morally neutral.

-- AerinMiller - 04 Feb 2010

 
 
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