Ethics

Last Minute Clinton Pardon Ethical? Enter one President and one fugitive from justice. In 1983 Marc Rich was charged with illegally buying oil from Iran while it was under a trade embargo. He was thought to have been trying to avoid oil price controls, evading nearly $50 million in federal taxes. After fleeing to Switzerland he was placed on the America's Ten Most Wanted List. 17 years later in the last hours of the Clinton presidency, Marc Rich …

…took to heart when deciding to pardon a man on the 10 most wanted list. Nicomachean Ethics: Not only use reason but use it well. Without knowing the exact situation and all the facts one cannot judge how well a man reasoned when making a choice. Ethics are very subjective; who can say one action is "the moral" one? How can one man judge another's ethical standards? Why must we be left to ponder such things?