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I make and sell soap. The soap contains an ingredient that anyone can use to make bombs. Some people buy my soap only for that purpose. I know because they lite
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I make and sell soap. The soap contains an ingredient that anyone can use to make bombs. Some people buy my soap only for that purpose. I know because they literally tell me how they use my soap. I can remove that ingredient but I would loose a lot of sales.
The police finds my soap in the lab of someone who blew up a building. Some people died. Was it my fault, knowing how it was being used? Did I do anything illegal? Unethical? Immoral?
- hbbio 2y ago> I can remove that ingredient but I would loose a lot of sales. Or: I can remove that ingredient but it goes against my principle of not accepting constraints. > Some people died. Was it my fault, knowing how it was being used? Did I do anything illegal? Unethical? Immoral? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15398776/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15398776/
- jshen 2y agoJail is for people that don't accept constraints outlined by democratic society.
- highwaylights 2y agoThis is a nonsense argument. The manhattan project was very intentionally an attempt to create a WMD, it wasn’t a side-effect of something else. You don’t have a point here.
- beeflet 2y agoInteresting thought experiment, but no, I don't think it's llegal/unethical/immoral to sell that soap. But in practice this sort of business will change their formula to avoid bad press and regulation.
- herbst 2y agoHaving done some internet things (email stuff) that have been abused by others I always felt obligated to make the abuse as hard as possible once I found out about it. I am not sure about the legal standpoint, but from a moral one I would have felt bad running the business knowing it's regularly abused to harm others and I am not doing anything against it.