Ethics Questions
Spokane's Spokesman-Review has stopped running columns from the New York Times' house "ethicist" Randy Cohen. The reason, as Mariel noted last week, is that Cohen was violating his own employer's ethics policy by giving money to political campaigns.
The best part of the story, though, is Spokesman-Review features' editor Ken Paulman's satirical take on how Cohen would answer his own ethical conundrum, were it posed by a reader:
Q: My employer has a clear policy against campaign contributions. I think I should be exempt from this policy and allowed to make donations, because I don't see any difference between this and other forms of civic involvement. What should I do?A: By all means, ignore the policy, quietly make your contribution, and hope that no one finds out. If you get caught, agree to abide by the policy in the future, but don't acknowledge any wrongdoing - you'll be able to rationalize it after the fact.
H/T: Best of The Web Today.
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