> There's nothing wrong with the company conducting business compliant with the law, even if it may be viewed immoral from someone's point of view.
Right and wrong are subjective, legal and illegal are objective.
From the perspective of the business owner who is focused primarily on maximising revenue / profits for their business, there is nothing wrong with simply focusing on legal compliance.
From the perspective of the employee who is motivated by things other than maximising revenue / profits / their own salary, there could be plenty wrong.
Itβs a free country cuts both ways. Both parties are free to see things as right and wrong as they see fit.
All true. But additionally, it is not quite right to say that morality and legality have nothing to do with each other. Legality, generally speaking, is the subset of morality that a sustainable majority has codified into objective laws.
In other words, legality is basically the subset of morality that Republicans and Democrats can agree on. Which is why going beyond legality into subjective morality so often becomes polarizing.
> legality is basically the subset of morality that Republicans and Democrats can agree on
I largely agree with this, except when we start looking at uncharted territory.
Generally speaking, we are (legally) free to do as we please. As people do things we (as a sufficiently large group) disagree with, laws may eventually pass to restrict the freedoms to do those things.
Just because something hasn't been codified into law, doesn't necessarily mean it's not likely to be largely condemned, it could just mean nobody anticipated anyone actually doing the thing prior to it happening.
Combine that with a legal system that works on the letter of the law, rather than the intent of the law, and incentives can (and when capital is concerned, often do) skew away from morality entirely.
Consider that the falsehood that a corporation CEO has a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders at all costs continues to perpetuate, for a consideration of the mindset that simply works on the basis that if it hasn't been outlawed, then it's okay.
I'm not sure if we're in disagreement about what living in a free country means. Everyone has their opinion on right and wrong, but as a society we agree that there's a specific set of laws that we all follow, so we all could get along.
Right and wrong are subjective, legal and illegal are objective.
From the perspective of the business owner who is focused primarily on maximising revenue / profits for their business, there is nothing wrong with simply focusing on legal compliance.
From the perspective of the employee who is motivated by things other than maximising revenue / profits / their own salary, there could be plenty wrong.
Itβs a free country cuts both ways. Both parties are free to see things as right and wrong as they see fit.