[ledauphin]

Ethics is not reducible to "learning not to lie." There's also "not using sweeping generalizations to dramatically affect individual's lives" and "using authority the way it was intended instead of shrinking from the responsibility granted by the will of the people" and a whole other host of ethical issues that apply to the various aeronautical administrations.

Brainwashing alone does not an ethical system make. You generally have to act ethically in order to teach other people to do the same.

[wly_cdgr]

Exactly (re: your last sentence), which is a very big part of why you should not lie. It is no good to say "well, the system / another person did something bad, so I get to do something bad also". You have to take responsibility and do the right thing anyway. That is the whole heart and essence of ethics. Without people who are willing to do that, everything quickly goes down the drain in a filthy spiral of degradation.