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Re:An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance by cacainmycafe on Monday June 23, 2014 @05:39PM (#7934881)
Yeah, morality has nothing to do with anything. Say, if all of your neighbours bought insurance on your property, and the one day it collapsed, then there would be nothing immoral about that, but I bet you would not feel to great when they waved their piles of sweaty cash in your face over the rubble of your home.

Now swap home for dead relative.

See?

Life is not black and white, but, it seems, is certainly good for payoff or two.

Re:An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance by vacri on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:06PM (#7935028)
Giving your neighbours a solid incentive to see your house collapse is immoral. Their lives are not affected if your house is destroyed, but they gain financially. Cue shenanigans.
Re:An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance by nawitus on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:09PM (#7935045)
>Say, if all of your neighbours bought insurance on your property, and the one day it collapsed, then there would be nothing immoral about that

I agree, if the neighbours had nothing to do with the collapse.

Re:An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance by Crito on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:29PM (#7935154)
I can even think of situations where it would make sense to take out insurance on your neighbors home. For example, if you observe that your neighbors are hoarders, you might try to get insurance on their home in anticipation of the home's eventual condemning (which would wreck your homes value through geographical association).

The only problem there is that I suspect that the insurance company would not be particularly keen on that.

Re:An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance by secabeen on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:33PM (#7935172)
Yeah, that's why you generally need an Insurable Interest in someone to buy life insurance on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurable_interest