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Originally Posted by Punk.of.Ages
The answer to this would be the same. Paying someone to do something that goes against your morals is still breaking your morals in an indirect way.
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Yeah, but what if you have two different morals colliding in the situation? E.g. someone is going to shoot your wife if you don't give them $100 (or some other valuable thing) on the spot... one moral of preserve-your-wife's-life is always going to take precedence of the moral of never-pay-someone-off. Not all morals are equal, if you ask me, which makes a blanket question like the one in the poll just a bit too simplistic.
But I guess that's not the gist of the OP... we're talking about giving/getting immoral things for money, not intervening with money to protect a loved one from harm, I suppose.
Again, I also think the whole situation changes when you're in a different country with a different code for getting things done. But I consider that to be a type of cultural relativity (not extreme relativity, but still a type).