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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by CompanionCuuube on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:21PM (#21204685)
Ah, so they just subscribe to profit ethics. It all makes sense now.
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:30PM (#21206987)
Again, is that worse than doing the wrong thing both times? Naming an action does not affect its outcome.
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by CompanionCuuube on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:18PM (#21207525)
How so? The nature of profit ethics is that the right thing to do is what is profitable. This is exactly what they are doing in both cases. They have never done "the wrong thing".
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:45AM (#21214354)
I am asking if there exists any ethical system under which their actions are worse than doing what the original poster considers to be wrong in both cases.
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by CompanionCuuube on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:09PM (#21216912)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207175, a reply to you well before you submitted this comment.
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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:15PM (#21219257)
And see my response. You and the others in this thread are grasping for straws trying to find a way to make doing more good deeds worse than doing fewer.
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