Re: Dreams

[stan johnson <sjohnson@gwi.net>]

** Reply to note from brett@lariat.org Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:41:19 -0500 
 If you believe that buying low and selling high is somehow 
 "profiting from others" and taking advantage of them, it's hard to  
 imagine any profession that you would find ethical, other 
 than perhaps that of monk, nun, or priest. Certainly, you would find 
 free enterprise to be completely evil and wrong.  
 
Your version of it, at least. Whether a profession (or a trade, or a 'job')   
is ethical or not is more a matter of what and how is practiced than the   
specific label. It is the person who ennobles or debases an occupation,   
not the contrary. In the calculus of ethics, intentions matter, acts   
matter, labels don't.   


-- 
Stan Johnson    TeamOS/2
sjohnson@gwi.net