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bigstrat2003today at 2:38 AM1 replyview on HN

That is no excuse whatsoever. It turns out that immoral actions don't become acceptable if you go "someone else would do it if I didn't". Perhaps they would, but you're still a bad person if you do the bad thing.


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s1artibartfasttoday at 3:10 AM

But it does become moral if someone else would do it worse.

Some even say you have a moral obligation to do it in that case.