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• @vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-09-20 12:26

  Yes. Groucho Marx quipped that military intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music (if I recall the attribution correctly). That seems to tell us something about the relation between business ethics and ethics. Seriously, I think yet another take on this is that the relation between ethics and compliance is like the relation between social norms and laws. Neither is a substitute for the other. The latter relation is (or used to be) a significant research area in social psychology, but, regrettably, I haven't followed that for way too long. I also recall how the protagonist of O. Henry's The Roads We Take is fully compliant with the law. (This is the short story where the key phrase is "Bolivar cannot carry double".) @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

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