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RE: Legality verus morality versus mission...the Intelligence Community: Post and Discussion
...corruption and sociopathy (as well as cowardice, nepotism, greed etc etc) are baked into our human nature
This is the hard truth, unfortunately.
'Absolutist ethics' at least goes someway to mitigate the continual battle between the moral and the corrupt.
I think. (on my first coffee of the day)
I'm sorry...I had a point in response to your comment, but after a day or grad school, I can't seem to put it back into the noggin.
My first reaction is that it is utilitarian ethics that provide pragmatic mitigation in the battle versus evil...
OK, I think I have it...taking an absolute position on kantian OR utilitarian ethics is just as bad. There ARE times when morality should not be compromised, and yet there are also times when the accepted morality neither remedies a situation, or is even self-destructive.
The reed bends with the wind