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r3x29yz4a said:
you should know that sometimes being ethical is immoral (attorney/client privledge can be considered immoral, even though its ethical



Your example only serves to illustrate my point. When you say it "can be considered immoral", you admit that this is a matter of individual conscience, not law.


You don't seem to be reading what I'm saying. I wasn't talking legal/illegal. I was asking if, even if revealing her name was legal, you thought it was a moral act for him to essentially ruin the woman's career over a politcal problem he had with her husband. And, if he released the name simply to discredit the report that discredited Bush's speech, isn't that the kind of dirty politics Bush vowed in 2000 to be against?
I believe in 1999 it wasn't a matter of law, it was a matter of morals in impeaching Clinton. With Clinton no careers were ruined and his lie was about sex, not motives for war (and make no mistake, if Bush is found to have been directly involved with the Plame leak than he is a liar for denying knowledge).

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Further, you shouldn't use the attorney code of ethics as an example of ethics being separate from law. The Code of Ethics is, in fact, a law. So a violation of the Attorney Code of Ethics is an illegal (if not criminal act) requiring proof, etc.


um...I was talking about the difference between ethics and morals. And I said ethics is the accepted standards of practice, even when they're not technically moral.

Bow ties are coool.