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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Anybody that is selling something is "tricking" you in the same way. And it isn't immoral, it's business.
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If you think that business is carried out with a complete lack of morality (or to borrow Harmon's phrasing) ethics, then you are sadly mistaken. If that were the case, the transaction costs of doing any business whatsoever would be so high as to make business impossible. It would mean that you would have to cross check every statement anyone ever makes to you in the course of a commercial transaction.
I am frankly appalled by the attitude of some people that because a transaction is commercial it is perfectly acceptable to deceive. Does deception happen in commercial transactions, undoubtedly, as in any other human interaction. Does that mean that we should approve of deception in commercial transactions, absolutely not, just as we don't approve of lying in personal interactions.