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From: Par Winzell <zell@alyx.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:39:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Matthew Mihaly writes:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Par Winzell wrote:
>
> > But "ethical schmethical" is too dismissive. :-)
>
> I disagree. My statement was intended to convey the idea that ethics
> should be _utterly_ irrelevant as far as an end goal in how you design a
> game, when doing it for a publically traded company. Publically traded
> companies have a mandate to create shareholder value, and any other goal
> (such as creating an 'ethical' game) is negligent management.
And my post was intended to convey the idea that "ethical" does _not_
necessarily mean running your company less efficiently just so you can
satisfy some vague bumper-sticker notion -- "ethical" can be a nugget
of common sense that you can use to create a better game, thus better
shareholder value!
Par
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