<p>maybe soldier?</p>
<p>My thinking is that they should abide by some ethical code. Maybe a religious worker (any religion, except Catholic priest)</p>
<p>Really? Another one of these?</p>
<p>leolibby started to get bored.</p>
<p>wall street banker. by improving the efficiency of capital flow, they are the most beneficial to society, and thus the most ethical.</p>
<p>Any job in which you are not causing harm to a third-party is an ethical job. In any textbook job, you are providing labor in exchange for money. Your employer, the buyer of your labor, wants your productivity, you want your employer’s money. The exchange is made (IOW, you work and he pays you), and both of you consider yourselves better off as a result: he has your productivity, you have your paycheck. In the process both of you have provided something that somebody wants, and without anybody being coerced.</p>
<p>For this reason, I consider a burger-maker at your local McDonald’s every bit as ethical as a surgeon.</p>
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<p>Many would disagree.</p>
<p>Probably someone like a teacher who does a much-needed job without expectation of very much compensation.</p>
<p>Are you kidding? Anything that has relations with religion is not ethical, AT ALL.</p>
<p>Is anyone going to offer up college admissions counselor for debate? Or is it a moot argument?</p>
<p>about a year ago, I almost entered a Buddhist seminary in south africa… I’m not sure if being a buddhist monk is a “job,” but that’s what I mean… monks live by a code of ethics… so do soldiers. btw “not causing harm” is not what i’m talking about.</p>
<p>police officer might be a good one.</p>
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Define “ethics.” If we are talking guiding principles or rules of conduct, then everyone I know lives by some code of ethics.</p>
<p>I suppose I am talking about guiding principles… but I’m not necissarily talking about religious moral codes. I used to work at Walmart, and I consider that an unethical job because ur just in it for the money.</p>
<p>i might be wrong.</p>
<p>So you are looking for professions that people choose primarily for non-monetary reasons? In that case I would go with social work (some positions require a graduate degree but barely pay the bills) or maybe academia (does pay decently, but not nearly as much as non-academic jobs would pay for the same credentials). I am surprised that you said soldier because I was under the impression that many young people join the military because it pays the college bills, but I might be wrong.</p>
<p>unemployed person who refuses gov’t aid and casts himself away from society in an environmentally friendly fashion</p>
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The job itself is ethical…just not all who have that job are ethical (I’m not justifying their actions, I still think what some of them have done is absolutely horrible).</p>
<p>I would say Dalai Lama. He seems very ethical.</p>
<p>correct, in fact I’m using my post 9-11 GI bill… but sometimes, that doesn’t apply… example-- career soldiers… those who sacrafice their life for others, or those who could be an officer, but remain as an NCO. I had a command Sgt Major who stayed in 25 years. You get the pension after 20… and the military doesn’t pay that great. There is a lot of job security there though.</p>
<p>What about Jon Stewart? Seriously though, he helps expose corruption and he helped get the NY firefighter bill passed.</p>
<p>sure. I like Colbert though.</p>
<p>I have a ton of respect for soldiers, moreso than a lot of people here I bet, but a couple things tarnish it as an ethical job:
-their job in many instances is to kill others. this includes civilians if need be. Yes they may be following orders, and it’s not their fault if the war is unjust, but the results of the job are not very ethical.
-there are soldiers that abuse their power
-some join the military for money, because they’ll die on the streets if they don’t, or even worse. </p>
<p>I think there must be some jobs that save lives, where almost everyone in it is good and those who aren’t aren’t bad, and where people do it not for money/glory but because they genuinely want to better the world. </p>
<p>Like what about the volunteer disease fighters in Africa?</p>