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Sean Polley - Lesson 4 Assignment 8

I have actually worked as an intern at a small tech company in which my co-workers view and overall concept of privacy was much more different from what I had been used to working as a lifeguard at my local high school and overall life experience. At this small startup no matter what you were doing and where you were, people would come up to you asking for help with their projects when you were clearly on a lunch break or working on your own projects. I’m not saying I’m against helping people out but in my personal opinion if they are busy or are eating on their personal break time you have to give them some space. These ties into somewhat the idea of Ethical Egoism in the sense that if someone needed help, rather than trying to spend time figuring it out, they would pick the option that best suited them and ask someone else to do part of their work for them. But the idea of people having separate ideas of privacy makes sense when you apply the ethical relativity theory in which according to their own culture or morals, to them it is not seen as an invasion of privacy or a nuisance. Relative to their culture and their own ethics they are not being ethically wrong.