what work do you think is morally wrong?

Question

do you think a call girl or pole dancer or hooker??what job do you believe to be ethically wrong and why?x

Answer 1

anything sexually related (with the exception of counselor)
drug dealing
mercenaries
mafia type criminal activities
abortion docs

Answer 2

One way to approach answering this question is to consider it from a Buddhist perspective.

We all have to earn a living so we can provide ourselves shelter, food, clothing, etc. However, the way we decide to earn that living is going to have some effect on the rest of the world. When considering a particular profession or line of work, think about the consequences that work might have on other people.

For example, being a bartender supports drunkenness. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but I've seen many people spend their paychecks at the bar when that money might be used more effectively. I was a bartender and what I saw troubled me.

Consider the work of a call girl, as in your question. Imagine that by being a call girl you are in effect supporting those that seek to cheat on those they've made promises to. This is not always the case, I admit, and this is just a for instance, but I'm giving these examples to illustrate one way of thinking about earning a living.

However you earn a living, give some thought to whether or not you are engaging in a line of work that increases suffering of others. Ideally we don't take up careers that cultivate suffering as a direct result of that vocation. Better yet would be a career that seeks to discourage or combat suffering of others. However, most of the things we do might actually be considered neutral.

We must just according to the circumstances and see things for ourselves. Nobody can tell you what is moral or ethical. You must see that for yourself, and seeing things clearly, without the filters of ego and selfishness, is an important part of finding your way.

Answer 3

I have never quite been able to grasp the inference taken by many that work of the nature you have indicated is any more morally suspect than any other form of exploitative work.

A regular factory worker, for example, might typically have 'earned' his or her weeks' 'wage' after the first half hour of a Monday morning shift - in terms of the wealth he or she has generated in that half-hour! All the wealth so generated for the remainder of the week is 'extracted' by the factory owners. That's indefensibly immoral!

It's simply the exploitation that is unethical: morally indefensible. Not the nature of the work.

The latter, be it poll-dancing, prostitution or machine operating, is just a job: a girl's got to eat!

Some 'jobs' of course are by their nature, immoral. The drug dealer, for example, who, having first seen to it that a young girl becomes addicted to heroin etc. sometimes by supplying it to her for 'free' and maybe as part of an ostensibly 'friendly' relationship. But who then expects her to risk her life by going out on the streets to pay for it.

The girl, still, is simply doing a job. I still fail to see anything immoral in her position - if she was from a rich family for example, she would possibly have safer means of satisfying her demand - let us assume, as a director of her father's farm! . . Now where's the ethical problem with the job? (Regardless of the dealer's position - moral or sound. And regardless of the exploitation of farmworkers!).

But WITH regard to the dealer, at least that who deliberately entraps a customer: Clearly immoral. Because it is exploitation, again.

Changing the emphasis quite a bit and while I still don't feel that it is the operator, employee etc. who is morally at fault (as I say: a girl's got to eat) I do always have a deep sense of unease where whole armies of bureaucratic jobs are created within the State, that don't serve any direct purpose whatsoever with regard to the perceived objective of this or that department.


The Government has poured huge sums of taxpayer's money into the 'education' and 'sickness' industries for example, as it has in other areas. But it's the same story there too: a feeding frenzy!

Everyone, pretty much, wants a good, well-paid job, most people want several cars, expensive housing, 2.4 "kids", foreign holidays, flash laptops and so forth. In short, nice fat salaries. And when a government hemorrhages taxpayer's pounds into this or that sector, THAT is precisely what people get: a honeypot with a great many bees humming around it.

As to the question of whether or not anyone in the 'education industry' gets educated or for that matter, anyone in the 'poverty industry' gets helped out of the trap, anyone who is ill gets a diagnosis . . . etc. . . . That's another question entirely, and for me at least, there is a very deep sense of moral unease about how such jobs have mushroomed out of control and absorbed all the budgets. Or even how they can be allowed to exist, at all.

Worrying about pole dancers and hookers is at worst a smoke screen for this rhinoceros in the room that nobody is talking about, and at best is to deflect from the really immoral factors underlying the conditions of existence of such jobs - exploitation.

Answer 4

Being a Politician on the front benches. Most start originally to care for the people. However, when they get ambitious they sell there soles and become lying, cheating dishonest bastards. They will take decisions that will cause great despair to many people. When it comes to the NHS they make decisions that can actually kill people. Yet they go on TV look straight at the camera and tell lies. What can be more immoral than that? You thought Blair was bad enough, wait till Gordon Brown become PM. You will have Britain's first Dictator.

Answer 5

selling yourself for money, whether pole dancing or selling sex is morally wrong, any work which involves the suffering of innocents is also wrong.

soldiers isn't so wrong morally, as they are there to protect us from those without our values and beliefs, who otherwise might attempt to harm and disrupt us.

any work or job that you do without justyfying reasonable means is wrong. no, obtaining money is NOT a good reason for doing a job, so you cannot explain poledancing or selling sex, but you could justify something say a plumber, because you are using your unique skills to aid people who are in need.

Answer 6

Call girls and pole dancers represent employment that is morally wrong.
Why?
They involve sexual thoughts and activity that lead to havoc.
One should not think in terms of "Its O.K. for me, individually."
One must think in terms of "What if everybody did this."
What kind of world would we have if everyone was a call-girl, or pole dancer, or benefitted from such services.
The results would be a broken down society, wherein loyalty, faithfulness, trust and responsibility would be out the window.

Answer 7

None of them are wrong. A scientist uses his brain to make a living, his brain is just that part of his body that performs best. An artist uses his imagination to make a living for the same reason. If someone has a good r's why shouldn't they be able to make a living from that.
Oh and I love em !!!

Answer 8

Burglar, mugger, con artist - wrong because they hurt other people. Don't have a problem with people doing an honest days work and if that's pole dancing, escorting etc that's fine with me.

Answer 9

All of those activities you mentioned are morally wrong. We all know that those sort of actions are not what God wants us to do. We need to turn from all things that are spiritually sickening and turn to Jesus Christ for forgiveness. We were made for far better things.

Answer 10

tax collectors and bailiffs.speaks for itself.and the over inflated egoistic arrogant job of prime minister.their must be a degree for being a prat.

Answer 11

Hired or paid murderer's

I am of the opinion no one has the right to take away another's life