C-da,
This weblink is working : Comparative Religious Ethics http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2005/01/12449/L02/seg1/index_SingleHighBandwidth.html . The one on Justice - it seems will start working when the new session starts soon next week.
Business is competition --just like Olympics. Many thinngs are legal and allowed at any point of time so one must play by the rules - but if someone is paranoid about violating any rule (such as by mistake touching the ball by hand while playing soccer ) and is constantly looking up the rule book only --- then s/he can never play at all. There are hundreds of rules for any game -and esp for business --which even the top most Harvard educated lawyers (incl US Supreme Court Chieff Justice - John Roberts) cannot remember ALL the time. One has to use one's judgement about the course of action to adopt. Sometimes one makes mistakes -without realizing - Tufts Univ in Boston has a program where it brings Business execs who made unethical decisions -to deliberate the situations in which they though that they were doing the right thing.
About ethics and law: 100 years ago 300+ Sikhs sailed from Hong Kong to settle in Vancouver , Canada - to try to by-pass the British Law which forbade them to do so. The ship was called KomaGata Maru (Guru Nanak Ship) . They were sent back -- after the Vancouver based British authorities found that they had done something illegal. Much later Canadian officials apologized for their actions. Who was unethical?
You decide. I would say --challenge an unjust law anytime (if it seems so to you).
Umesh
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C-da,
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From: umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, 26 September, 2006 3:05:33 PM
Subject: [Assam] Enterprise in Assam
C-da,
Perhaps you should see this Harvard course on Reasoning: Moral Justice and its lectures (on video via net -see left side for weblink) for debate about ethics. Overall - it says that try to go for "Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" while pursuing ethical course of acction -as a rule of thumb.
Why do you think that business is unethical while being an employee in am MNC is NOT?
Umesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna ST
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>I wonder why a discusion of business enterprise always ends up
>becoming a >discussion of ethics --whereas no such discussion seems
>necessary while talking >about terrorism.
*** Again how are they related?
*** Your comment
">For the enterprising there is always a way --ethics is a debatable issue :-)
displays an appalling absence of understanding the entire issue of
ETHICS! Not that you are alone here. But certainly it is NOT
something we would have expected from you, who waves around your
Harvard degree and all and lecture everyone on every subject under
the sun.
At 2:35 PM -0700 9/26/06, umesh sharma wrote:
>C-da,
>
>I wonder why a discusion of business enterprise always ends up
>becoming a discussion of ethics --whereas no such discussion seems
>necessary while talking about terrorism.
>Is it that business enterprise is considered worse than terrorism by
>many on AssamNet?
>
>Umesh Sharma
>5121 Lackawanna ST
>College Park, MD 20740 USA
>
>Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada
>
>1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
>Canada # (607) 221-9433
>
>
>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
>becoming a >discussion of ethics --whereas no such discussion seems
>necessary while talking >about terrorism.
*** Again how are they related?
*** Your comment
">For the enterprising there is always a way --ethics is a debatable issue :-)
displays an appalling absence of understanding the entire issue of
ETHICS! Not that you are alone here. But certainly it is NOT
something we would have expected from you, who waves around your
Harvard degree and all and lecture everyone on every subject under
the sun.
At 2:35 PM -0700 9/26/06, umesh sharma wrote:
>C-da,
>
>I wonder why a discusion of business enterprise always ends up
>becoming a discussion of ethics --whereas no such discussion seems
>necessary while talking about terrorism.
>Is it that business enterprise is considered worse than terrorism by
>many on AssamNet?
>
>Umesh Sharma
>5121 Lackawanna ST
>College Park, MD 20740 USA
>
>Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada
>
>1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
>Canada # (607) 221-9433
>
>
>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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