Ethical

This really worries me. <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> thinks that <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/01/19/build/state/22-dot-director.inc" target="_new"</a>breaking the law</a> is OK.<br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> said Wednesday he was aware of the charges filed against Lynch's business because of newspaper coverage at the time. Schweitzer said he talked with Lynch about the matter before nominating him to the Cabinet post. The violations did not give him pause about choosing Lynch, he said. <br />n<br />n"It's pretty clear that he hadn't done anything unethical," the Democrat said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nAt least that the way I read the quote. Breaking the law is not unethical he says. I sure think it is and to say it's not is a pretty twisted sense of right and wrong.<br />n<br />nI personally don't have a problem with Jim Lynch having this in his past. He was caught, fessed up, paid his fine, and moved on. This shows a high moral code to me but for the Governor to call the whole offense ethical is flat wrong. I really worry where we are going as a state.<br />n<br />n<b>Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date. George Bernard Shaw</b>