{"id":214,"date":"2006-10-09T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:44:47","slug":"a-small-ethical-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"A small ethical dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

Suppose you are aware of a disreputable story about person x, known to you; you find a version of this story—entirely anonymised—on a blog kept by person y, known to both you and x, but not, so far as you know, read by x. What do you do?<\/p>\n\n\t

The possible courses of action seem to me<\/p>\n\n\t

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  1. Do nothing. The story is true, but not attached to any kind of identifying information<\/li>\n\t\t\t
  2. Contact blogger y and suggest, or demand that they remove the story lest some malicious person get hold of it and turn it to x’s disadvantage. Add, to taste, a denunciation of their cruelty, heartlesness, voyeurism, etc.<\/li>\n\t\t\t
  3. Ring up x at breakfast and say “Guess what y has written about you?” Then read them the story.<\/li>\n\t<\/ol>\n\n\t

    I would be particularly interested in defences of option (3) because I can’t myself think of any.<\/p>\n\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t

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