Ethics and Values / Unit 3 Ethics 117 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Wickedness Objection
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The idea
The wickedness objection: ethical egoism endorses any act, however harmful to others, whenever the act genuinely profits the agent.
In practice
If falsifying the trial data enriches the executive and stays hidden, the theory does not merely permit the fraud — the theory recommends it as her duty.
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