u/Dramatic-Escape7031

▲ 9 r/Ethics

Is it immoral or unethical to use people who have dimished powers of reasoning e.g. elderly, autistic etc. for content?

For example Harvey Price has a tiktok account but he seems to be the subject rather than the creator. There's monetary gain and I think a conflict of interests but not sure about that. I'd think he should have a reasonable right to privacy and that being made famous without consent whilst living life in his own home is a massive invasion of that.

Edit: seems like there's a consensus. Should we start an action group to outlaw this practice?

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u/Dramatic-Escape7031 — 3 days ago

Do you think it would be better if we didn't have maps or knew what was outside of our waters? Then you go look and find a kangaroo but you have no idea what it is because Australia isn't a thing.

I'm going to stop watching any informative documentaries. The more you know the less wonder you have in your life. What would you think if you just randomly saw a giant whale jump into the air and that's the first time anyone saw that. No one would believe you.

I bet all the myths were the lies that got filtered out from real history. How long have people been making up ghost stories saying they saw a monster sincerely?

Peasants were eating rabbits in huts and saying they saw a witch fly through air on a broom and enough people took it as reality that it stuck.

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u/Dramatic-Escape7031 — 7 days ago