Jobs often demand that people violate their own ethics. Another example is spying on people by demanding their name, home address, phone number, email, etc. so the company can harass them. That overall abuse of ethics is a problem because:
1) It means more ethical people quit or get fired, making it hard for them to find work and survive, which makes ethics counter-survival and thus less appealing.
2) It rewards people who have no ethics, or are willing to violate theirs on request or for a sufficient payoff. This tends to fill businesses with unethical employees. And as employers have found out, they don't just screw the customers. Unethical people also steal supplies, malinger on the job, create costly scandals, and otherwise make it harder for the business to succeed.
3) Moral injury tends to exceed the current capability of the health industry to heal. People sort of try to help if they believe it's a real problem -- which many don't -- but they're not trained in how to treat injured souls. Modern religions aren't much better at it. And you can't fix that kind of problem in an environment that compounds it anyway. So it's ubiquitous in some fields such as the health industry.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2021-06-28 12:59 am (UTC)1) It means more ethical people quit or get fired, making it hard for them to find work and survive, which makes ethics counter-survival and thus less appealing.
2) It rewards people who have no ethics, or are willing to violate theirs on request or for a sufficient payoff. This tends to fill businesses with unethical employees. And as employers have found out, they don't just screw the customers. Unethical people also steal supplies, malinger on the job, create costly scandals, and otherwise make it harder for the business to succeed.
3) Moral injury tends to exceed the current capability of the health industry to heal. People sort of try to help if they believe it's a real problem -- which many don't -- but they're not trained in how to treat injured souls. Modern religions aren't much better at it. And you can't fix that kind of problem in an environment that compounds it anyway. So it's ubiquitous in some fields such as the health industry.