I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.
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