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On Professional Ethics
Amrutash Misra
About me
• IIT-M 2003-08• Mechanical + Manufacturing• Shaastra Core twice• Lead the team that founded CFI• Joined Hindustan Unilever• Started a library• Run an online business now
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What is …
• Ethical?• Moral?• Legal?• Subjectivity comes in
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WHAT IS FAIR?
• Big fish EAT small fish in nature• Human Law over Jungle law in society• Fair is a human concept• Fair is a subjective concept
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The ethical axis and the acceptable line
• VERY VERY BLACK• VERY BLACK• BLACK• VERY VERY GRAY• VERY GRAY• GRAY• MILDLY GRAY• WHITE• VERY WHITE• VERY VERY WHITE
Unacceptable
Where you draw your line may be different
from where somebody else draws his line.
Acceptable
BIG FISH GULP SMALL FISH
BIG FISH NICE TO SMALL FISH
Very Very black
• BIG FISH GULP SMALL FISH• Genocide / mass murder• Exploding a nuclear bomb
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Very Black
• Murder / violence• Terrorism
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Black
• High $$ bribing• Using force to threaten competitors• High $$ Tax evasion• Land grabbing
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Very Very Gray
• Stealing competitor data• Espionage
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Very Gray
• Low value bribing – bribing the sales tax officer so that he passes your file quickly
• “Taking” competitor data
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Gray
• Selling / using something whose manufacture involved an unethical practice– Firecrackers– iPhones
• Selling something that will cause unethical practices / – Fair and Lovely
• Working for an unethical company in an ethical job– Dow?
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Mildy Gray
• Bribing a traffic cop for breaking a red light• Outsourcing your bribing
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White
• NOT being corrupt• NOT cheating
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Very White
• Standing up against corruption by not being corrupt AND not allowing corruption by linked people.
• Not allowing others to cheat. Help others achieve a better ethical scale.
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Very Very White
• BIG FISH HELP SMALL FISH• Socialism in its true sense (not the Chinese /
Russian or the Indian sense)
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You are an IITian
• You don’t NEED to bribe • You don’t NEED to cheat• You don’t NEED a shortcut
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The simple ethical rule is …
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Gray is Black.
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One more thing
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Do pick up a good book from us
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