[OT] Re: Sticking point

> Exactly, he enjoys a unique privilege know by few, the ability to
> choose ethics over mortgage and college tuition payments 
> obligations. 

I'm not sure I would characterize it as "ethics". I am exercising a 
freedom. I would like to suggest that the freedom is not a "privilege 
known by few", but just that - a freedom, which we may or may not 
choose to exercise.

Ethics, to my way of seeing, would consist of a discussion of just 
how dire your circumstances have to be before it can be argued that 
this freedom has been taken from you. Ethics would be a matter of 
drawing the line, a line which would stand somewhere between an Iraqi 
or Chechen peasant (no freedom of that sort) and a Western hi-tech 
professional with three kids (a lot more freedom).

Ethics would be entering into the discussion of how my choosing *not* 
to exercise the freedom of expressing my beliefs, even in the 
workplace, is possibly tantamount to endangering the same freedom for 
others, such as my coworkers.

To say that "I have no choice", for someone with access to the 
material and intellectual resources which I was granted as a result 
of my social class, nationality, etc. would be an obscene 
exaggeration. That is just one more belief that I happen to hold, 
mind you.


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