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Mcks wasn’t asked for advice on ethics, they were asked advice on increasing sales.

If you go to a Tattoo artist and ask for a portrait tattooed on your face, it might be gauche as hell, but that didn’t change the fact the artist might’ve done a great job.

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Not even close to a comparable analogy. A better analogy would be yours, but where the ink disappears after 1 day and the person getting the tattoo dies a day later.

No, it’s a perfect analogy, because it illustrates that efficacy is independent of moral perspective.

Morality has nothing to do with it. If consulting advice literally bankrupts your company, the advice is trash, full stop.

No, the advice Purdue asked for bankrupted the company.

Just like how asking a programmer to build a garbage program doesn’t mean the programmer is trash, it just means the specs are.

Programmers who build garbage are part of the problem, no?

Not if they build garbage well, the quality of the code and the quality of the product are independent.

But isn't building garbage a problem? What's the point of automatic garbage?

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