Which is ethically worse?

Question

Which is ethically worse-
1) working as an occupational health person at a company which has in the past polluted the air and nearby river (but is supposedly working to clean it up)
or
2) working in the pornography industry to recruit women, photograph them and sell the pictures when your spouse is strongly against it but you need the money

Assume both individuals are Christian.

The spouse working in the porn industry is not being photographed - rather photographing and distributing pictures of other willing participants.

Answer 1

You are meeting a particular human need/s in both cases. And you are doing it honestly to earn money (as long as both occupations are not against the law in your country, and you are not forcing someone to do something for personl gain)
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Answer 2

I would have to say as a christian that this is a no brainer. Pornography and the exploitation of women is wrong no matter what. The next thing is keeping the harmony at home, if you love your spouse you have to at least consider their feelings. That being said the financial and medical benefits would be the next thing to weigh. Remember this is a capitalistic society not a democracy

Answer 3

I admire your courage for coming up with your dilemma by asking the question. What is ethical some is unethical for others. Though it’s my understanding, unless someone is prejudice against one of the options given, the health company or the porn industry, he or she will be able to give the better ethically sound answer.

According to your point of view, the health company is not unethical. It used to be involved in unethical dealings. Let me digress here a little: in the past, you did things you knew that shouldn’t be done, such as lying, lusting after your neighbor’s spouse, harboring hatred, etc.; now that you have become a Christian, you strive to do only the things that you know you have to do such loving, helping, and leading a moral and divine life. Does the behavioral change justify you? The answer is ‘yes;’ it does justify you. Likewise, a company that used to behave unethically in the past but behaves ethically now is justified.

We are comparing the health company with the porn company. What we have here is a health company, and if we forget about what the company did in the past, what we really have is a company that is beneficial to society. We are asked to compare a company that is beneficial to society with a porn company. What does the porn company do for society? For one thing, it brings financial revenue; therefore, it helps with the national gross product and employment rate. Whereas the health company does all that and more, we cannot for the time being find anything, detrimental to society, done by the health company. In contrast to that, the porn company is a social variance that leads to depravation, sinfulness, debasement, perversion, debauchery, and in a Christian point of view, physical and spiritual death.

Pornography can be best compared to cocaine, except that the latter is illegal. They both bring revenue, huge revenue I might add. However, both of them kill people physically and spiritually. They put you in a state where, though living, you become an insensitive agent to social norms and morality. You no longer concern yourself with social growth and development rather to the individualistic satisfaction of desires that go against the flow of social progress and evolvement.

Pornography is an opened door to decadence. Like all evils, once you start it is hard to stop, and you will lose ethical responsibility toward all those who are dear to you. Your children and your husband will suffer, and your ties to them will sever. Then, morally you will find yourself in a pit.

If you start as an observer, you will end as a participant. Indeed, things we tend to tolerate, we tend to accept, and things we tend to accept, we tend to do.

I think that you ought to listen to your husband. Obviously, you’re dear to him. I hope he means that much to you, and you mean that much to yourself because it’s not only about your husband or social life; it’s also about you, a fully functioning child of God.

Answer 4

I don't think #1 is bad at all, if they are working to clean it up and the company has stopped polluting.
#2 is definitely bad, not just because the spouse is against it though.

Answer 5

I have no ethical objections to either.

In case 1, the person is trying to clean up the company.

In case 2, the pornography appears to only involve consenting adults.

Answer 6

I can't say that I would loose sleep over either but the key point is that you are going behind your spouse's back.

Is loosing someone's trust worth the money you're getting?

Answer 7

number 2, we are suppossed to care for the Earth which God has made for us,but,1 sounds much better.

Answer 8

2 is worse without a doubt.

Answer 9

It depends upon what your personal ethic structure is.

Answer 10

Why do i have the feeling that you are in the second situation and your husbant in the first one ?!