Artistic license
One of the by-products of writing a blog is that you want to make it interesting for others to read, which may in turn mean stretching or altering some facts to make them suit your needs.It is an ethical dilema of which the author must decide what is approriate. If a utilitarian view is taken then artistic license would cause little ethical problem as the outcome would justify the means i.e the story would be better, more funny etc.
On the other hand if the author analysed the situatuation deontologically an ethical issue of priciples and inaccuracy would become prevailent. And in terms of virtue, would the author be happy if the fact was on the front page of The Times tomorrow? If not you can be sure the decision is wrong.
As you may probably have realised I have little concern over my own ramblings being interesting to the masses. You can rest assured the facts on these pages will hold up in court, but lets hope it doesn't come to that.
posted by mrwhatshisface @ 3:18 pm
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