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_wwz4 on March 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick ...

Ethics involves some judgement of "right" and "wrong".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that torturing people so that they worship your "loving and forgiving God" is unethical.

rhizome on March 10, 2013 [–]

It's certainly destructive. However, certain people throughout history have figured out way for the ends to justify the means, they had an ethic (cf. TV's Dexter), and this contextual dependence is what I'm trying to describe.

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