"Joe is a tax-law scholar; Barbara is a legal philosopher/ethics scholar. You might imagine that they would have acted as a restraint on their son, and tried to help him navigate the incredible challenge of having a $32 billion company"
You might, if you were a bit more cynical, imagine young Sam got many a lesson on just how close you could skate to the edge of the rules without falling over, and it led to over-confidence.
Frankly I wouldn't assume a professor of tax law or of ethics would have even tried to restrain him necessarily, any more than an anthropologist is going to convince their child to settle down and get married.
To a certain extent that's my point. Perhaps I should have inserted the word "naively" as in "Naively you might imagine that" But as you point out, ethics is not about being ethical, but about how to safely be unethical.
Also, University Professor, so "ivory tower" approach indicating all this law and ethics stuff is an interesting thought experiment in considering how lesser people live, etc.
Which isn't to say there's no good or useful professors, ethicists, etc... just that I wouldn't know how to bet, even aside from the other evidence you gave.
"Joe is a tax-law scholar; Barbara is a legal philosopher/ethics scholar. You might imagine that they would have acted as a restraint on their son, and tried to help him navigate the incredible challenge of having a $32 billion company"
You might, if you were a bit more cynical, imagine young Sam got many a lesson on just how close you could skate to the edge of the rules without falling over, and it led to over-confidence.
Frankly I wouldn't assume a professor of tax law or of ethics would have even tried to restrain him necessarily, any more than an anthropologist is going to convince their child to settle down and get married.
To a certain extent that's my point. Perhaps I should have inserted the word "naively" as in "Naively you might imagine that" But as you point out, ethics is not about being ethical, but about how to safely be unethical.
Oh sure, was expanding, not arguing.
Also, University Professor, so "ivory tower" approach indicating all this law and ethics stuff is an interesting thought experiment in considering how lesser people live, etc.
Which isn't to say there's no good or useful professors, ethicists, etc... just that I wouldn't know how to bet, even aside from the other evidence you gave.