绿色与“人人都这么做”

Green and Everybody's Doing It

Business Ethics Quarterly · 1991
被引 5
ABS 3

中文导读

本文分析了“人人都这么做”这一论点在道德和法律论证中的无效性,通过儿童对父母、商业贿赂以及圣经故事等例子,说明该论点不能为不道德行为提供正当理由。

Abstract

The claim that “everybody's doing it’ is not usually taken as a moral justification for an act that is otherwise immoral. Children frequently use this argument on their parents, without success. Business people sometimes try this argument, for instance, in claiming that since everyone else in a given country pays bribes, they are allowed to do so also. Abraham knew better than to use that argument on the Lord. He pleaded that Sodom and Gomorrah be spared if ten just men could be found there; not that anyone was just for doing what all the rest were doing.

法律经济学社会学哲学政治学伦理学