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by justrealist 1041 days ago
> However, at a certain point you do your best and start supporting the team effort.

Yeah, I don't think opting-out is the morally superior option if you know that the competition is lying through their teeth too.

At a point, the only way to improve the world is to make things better than they otherwise would have been. Complaining feels good but at the end of the day doesn't deliver more value to customers, hospital patients, or anyone in-between.

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Counterpoint:

If you compromise every ethical principle (because everyone else does), I vontend you are in no better ethical standing than anyone else. Some has to maintain the height of the bar as the "unreasonable person in the room".

Remember, the only thing keeping us from an ideal world is all those filthy pragmatists out there.

That's not a counterpoint, it's just a self-inflated way of patting yourself on the back while doing nothing.