What are some things that are illegal, but ethical? Also, what are things that are legal, but unethical?

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Mostly regarding the business environment

Answer 1

It is illegal to run a traffic light or speed even though it is ethical if someone's life depended on it.. like if you had to rush them to the hospital.

It is illegal to work "off the clock" (voluntarily or not) if you are an hourly employee even though it might be the ethical thing to do in order to help the company progress forward.

It is illegal to let someone else use your perscription athsma inhaler even though it might be the ethical thing to do if they are having an attack.

It is illegal to lease a car or an apartment in your name for someone else who otherwise would not qualify but it is an ethical thing to do if it is going to help them succeed in life.

It is legal to mislead people when selling a product or service provided that you did not directly lie about it even though it is unethical to make them believe that what you are offering is not what you represented it to be.

It is perfectly legal to operate multi-level marketing and pyramid-type operations even though it is unethical to promise people that they will make $40,000 a week.

It is perfectly legal to initiate a hostile takeover on a small business yet it is unethical to forcibly acquire what someone had worked so hard to build.

It is perfectly legal to "pump & dump" stocks even though it is unethical to con people out of their money.

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Illegal But Ethical

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What are some things that are illegal, but ethical? Also, what are things that are legal, but unethical?
Mostly regarding the business environment

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I'm not sure, but I think barter could be both illegal and ethical, if no sales taxes were paid.
It's illegal to feed your parking meter, but it's ethical, since you are not wasting more fuel.
It can be illegal not to fullfil a contract, but it might be ethical for any number of reasons.
It's legal to pay your taxes, but some people would argue it's unethical because the money is being spent on war.
It's legal to sequester your assets in a corporation so you won't have to pay much child support, but it's unethical to do it.

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sure. it's 'legal' for a bank to charge a customer 79% on a credit card. it's also 'legal' for this same bank to let you run up a balance on your credit card, and then - after loaning you the money - change the terms of that loan. both of these things are immoral, wrong and unethical and used to be considered usury, and were illegal but thanks to the 'legal' bribery system that exists in our politican system (campaign contributions) the law was changed. bribery, by the way, is also immoral, but is legal in many forms in our nation. it's not immoral to go five miles an hour over the speed limit, but it is illegal. it's not immoral to have a beer at age 18 (when you can go and die for your nation) but it is illegal. it's not immoral to cross the street away from a crosswalk (jaywalking) but it is illegal. in fact, many of our laws are not aimed at a criminal element at all - they are aimed at us, so that the govt can get a few bucks from us (parking tickets) or support an increasingly predatory prison 'industry.' arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning someone for smoking pot, (enforcement of a 'law') is itself immoral. a very high percentage of inmates in prisons are there for marijana related crimes - something that you can grow in your garden, but is 'illegal' for vastly irrational reasons. the prison system that incarcerates them is more and more often a privately owned and for profit business. it's lobbyists for this business who is now very active in preventing logical and sensible laws to be passed with regards to smoking pot. this means that sometimes those enforcing the laws and punishments meeted out by the courts are themselves immoral because of the nature of the system.