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Best Sales Strategies Don't Include Covert Manipulation

SalesFuel

An unethical deed can be morally wrong but not illegal. Ethics differ from person to person. Similarly, manipulating a person’s opinion can be rationalized if it serves our best sales strategies to further our purpose. It’s often a matter of degrees as to how much manipulation is too much.

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Meat

Animal Ethics

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. Of all the ways of influencing behavior, rational persuasion is the most effective, the most secure (in the sense of long-lasting), and the most defensible from a moral point of view.

Meat 40
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As long as it's legal, who am I to judge?

Animal Person

It might reflect the values of the majority in some ways (and in other ways not), but its function is not as a moral statement, said that professor. We have a legal right to use them, but that doesn't mean doing so is justifiable moral ly. It merely transitioned from illegal to legal (or vice versa).

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Highlights from Costa Rica, Global Bird Weekend, 2020

10,000 Birds

And especially when the event can be leveraged to promote conservation, birds, and help with the fight against the illegal bird trade? Oh yeah, and the serious mega of the day was a dang adult Gray-hooded Gull seen at the shorebird hotspot of Punta Morales! Why limit birding to a single day when you can keep on birding the day after?