[sandstrom]

Yeah, surely there is some continuum, from some boring federal museum to tax rates to Guantanamo.

My main point wasn't to argue which weight this particular topic should be given.

Rather, I'm curious whether employees in countries with non-functioning governments are more likely to try to influence policy through their job?

From a European perspective it seems like this may be the case.

[etiene]

Oh, I understand your question now. From an European perspective, there is hardly any reason to hold our governments standards as having the moral grounds to establish what's the most efficient way to act in ethical issues like this. Perhaps relative to the USA, yes, so you could be correct that certain government's ineptitudes have a correlation with how creative people get to get heard.

Either way, the whole question of dealing with ethics from the efficiency perspectice is one that bothers me and a whole discussion in itself.