Law in Contemporary Society

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JobsAsComplicity 7 - 05 Feb 2010 - Main.ChristopherCrismanCox
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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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  the position you're now taking. Your larger difficulty is being morally dissociative and without autonomy.
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  • You say here that the larger difficulty is being morally dissociative and without autonomy. What if one does not morally dissociate? Then wouldn't moral complicity become a problem? Or are you taking the more hardline position that if one has to ask the question, then clearly one has not learned how to avoid moral dissociation yet? (Since if one had learned to avoid dissociation, one would not even be contemplating doing something that would require dissociation.)
-- ChristopherCrismanCox - 05 Feb 2010
 Added a comment box. Hope you don't mind bud.

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