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DiscussionWhat do you think affects a person's moral standards?
I recently talked to my partner how I am outraged by the concept of conferences in my workfield. The things is, it's very common to invite speakers to present a topic and sell tickets to attendees. But the speakers are not paid and quite often the transportation (most travel from different cities) and accommodation are not covered either. And I get the organisers of conferences need to cover rent and food expenses, that's why they sell tickets. But like it's also a common practice to sell videos to those who couldn't attend and well the speakers don't get any royalties either - to me that looks like just exploiting professionals and using their free labour to your benefit.
I then started googling conferences and these things are actually not uncommon in other work fields either. I told.my partner that if you invite someone for free either the whole event should be free or you give the surplus money (after paying rent) to a charitable cause. My partner agreed, but also mentioned that judging by how conferences are poular, nobody seems to mind. I told him that I personally wouldn't be able to invite highly professional people (on a competition basis) and then sell tickets and not give any money to the speakers. And then we started talking about why some people are ok with that, but also why some people have higher or lower moral standards. My partner told me he doesn't know the answer and I should ask philosophers.
But what do you, gyns, think? What affects a person's moral standards? Family? (Then why moral standards can differ between siblings?) Environment? Books and movies we choose to watch? Something else?
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