Saturday, January 30, 2010

Morality

If you sell a product that earn you a high commission and you know is bad for customers (e.g. you would not buy the product for your own use), it may still be legal (i.e. you have observed the law strictly to the letter), but you are acting immorally (i.e. to know right from wrong, good from bad).

Many years ago, society observed moral and ethical values. Today, society has accepted immoral values in the pursue of the capitalist profit. They created terms such as "caveat emptor" and "open your eyes" to justify the immoral pursuit of profit. Even the leaders set a bad example by benchmarking their salaries to the top corporate profits, which may be obtained through immoral ways.

Tan Kin Lian