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Pastimes : Ethics 101
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To: coug who wrote (41)1/23/1999 9:24:00 AM
From: Cush  Read Replies (1) of 75
 
Coug: I think you have raised an interesting point, if I've understood it properly.

You said;
"If you get an advisory service for personal use,
are you supposed to spread it around after you take a position?? To deprive the
publisher, of additional revenue, to take the position and then profit on additional
publicity of the
"spreading".. Or to take it one step further, have a concerted effort
of a "pool of people" to t each take a seperate service, come up with the best and
share it.. WHEN WE ARE ALL PROFESSIONAL OR SEMI-
PROFESSIONAL TRADERS...

It seems cheap and unethical to me...... an Indepedant Coug"

Is this just further evidence of the way our society can rationalize any behaviour?
I think you make a very good point.
We see it all the time on threads where individuals share information in violatation of copyright contracts. The passing along of real-time and market depth information comes to mind.
Perhaps there is an argument with this info that by the time someone copies and pastes info into an SI post it is no longer Real-time anyway. But that does seem like a rationalization.

I think more likely we all feel like we're fighting a war here.
It's us against the big THEM.
We feel that the deck has been stacked against us
and therefore any collusion on our part that would otherwise be clearly unethical becomes acceptable
as though there's some area between ethical and unethical.
Guess that's why we invented Purgatory.

Cush
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