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Ethics "Expert"
Unethical Regarding Microsoft
Dear Editor,
Re: "Ethics for Dummies" -- by John Dalla Costa -- May 28 -- The Globe
and Mail (ROB)
Imagine the following scenario. A group of people are being unjustly persecuted by
the government with laws that are so contradictory, vague and elastic that nobody
can know what is a crime until the judge delivers his verdict. Along comes an ethics
"expert" to proclaim the persecution justified because that group allegedly
wasn't "ethically correct" in the past, and allegedly had dishonest intentions
in fighting the persecution. Wouldn't the ethics "expert" in this context
be unethical for diverting the issue and thereby sanctioning an unjust persecution?
That ethics "expert" is John Della Costa (Business Ethics -- May 28); those
unjust laws are the U.S. antitrust laws; that group is the shareholders of Microsoft.
Mr. Della Costa evades the fundamental issue in the U.S. government's assault on
Microsoft: Did Microsoft commit an objectively defined and legitimate crime? Instead,
Mr. John Della Costa offers Microsoft such trivial advice as "respect human
dignity," "be honest," and "be fair" -- as if these will
protect Microsoft against unjust laws and the political power lusters behind them.
I strongly recommend that he visit the website of the Committee for the Moral Defense
of Microsoft ( http://www.moral-defense.org ) to read about the real ethical issues in the Microsoft case.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1998 Glenn Woiceshyn.
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