[arugulum]

You could easily make the other argument: As a professor of ethics she studies many different ethical systems, including ones that are not mainstream. This means that she can more easily find some ethical system under which a given action is considered ethical.

The "ethics expert = more ethical" connection has never held up and mainly serves as a gotcha.

[wpietri]

It's a good thing I never claimed "ethics expert = more ethical", then. What I'm saying is that I agree there's an irony here.

It's true that, as you say, she could use her knowledge of ethics to be less ethical. But that would just be a different kind of irony for somebody who teaches on law and ethics.

[jessriedel]

It’s not ironic if a mechanic is a bad race-car driver