ethical dilemma

I think Aristotle would have the best answer as to this ordeal by a simple statement that what they are doing is not ethical. I’m not really sure how he feels about uncovering political or corporate corruption other than the people in charge were in the wrong as well.

If people did listen to his beliefs that you need to go with what morally feels right, then this whole situation would never had occurred.

Immanuel Kant would hardly be surprised by the corruption or ‘evil’ of both sides in this situation. However, Kant would argue that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions. This leads me to believe that he would agree with the two people’s methods of uncovering the truth because they came up with an idea and then implemented it. He follows strange logic of what goes around comes around, so he might very well believe the undercover freelance journalists are justified.

Utilitarians would think that they were striving for a greater good, as they believe ACORN is a corrupt organization whom is bad for society. Whether or not ACORN is evil or not is still up in the air, however. This would cause problems since ACORN is an organization attempting to do something for the common good, but higher ups betraying people’s trust.

Whatever those old philosophers think really doesn’t matter since everyone these days subscribe to their own sense of ethics and morals, leading to more problems than stars in the sky.