alt Hacker News> it's more ethical to stand up for what's right even at personal cost.
Employment is a business transaction not a transaction based on ethics viewpoints
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JohnFen • 01/15/2026
If you're not being ethical in your business transactions and decisions, you're bad at business. And life.
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ajkjk • 01/16/2026
that's the attitude of an unethical person, yes
(also that of a "non-ethical" person, like an animal or a person with no agency in the matter, if you want to make the distinction. I'm not sure we should but I guess it's an interesting question)
Just because there's no law saying you have to have ethics in software development doesn't mean you shouldn't have ethics in software development.