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== Ethics Discussion ==


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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. So, Myke, we mentioned in the beginning that you're a professor, you teach ethics, you have a philosophy background. So why don't you just kind of explain just, you know, what your background is, what your teaching background is to everyone to get a little bit more specific than just those two little titles.

'''Mike Matteson:''' Yeah, yeah, no problem. So I actually originally got into philosophy because I really enjoyed doing bioethics. I thought it was, you know, one of these super important and emerging fields. And so most of my background started out in bioethics. So applied ethics is the larger field. And it's basically figuring out how people ought to act, right? What the right thing is to do or how the right person or what kind of person the right person is to be, I guess, which sounds like a silly thing to study, I guess. But it's about thinking, right? It's about critically engaging with the world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Mike Matteson:''' Oh, and I teach a lot of business ethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, a lot of that kind of applied stuff. I should throw that in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's good. I mean, that's like perfect topics, honestly, to bring into this discussion on a pen podcast of all things. Because, you know, I run a business in the pen world. You know, I have, you know, responsibility to, you know, my readers. I have responsibility to my advertisers. You know, I have responsibility to myself to, you know, run as ethical a ship as I can. And it's things I think about all the time. So what do you see in the community? Would you have, like, any kind of, like, flagpole topics that you think are, like, important specific to the pen community as far as ethics go?

'''Mike Matteson:''' Yeah, I mean, so as a, I mean, I'm a blogger and a reviewer. So a lot of that stuff is, there's a lot of ethical stuff bound up into that, right? Definitely. And when I put that post over on Reddit, there's a lot of response about that kind of issue. Right. But there's also issues of, like, you know, what went down with Estabrook not too long ago and that sort of thing. And then there's, you know, the mass drop and gray market stuff you were talking about last time and, you know, those sorts of things. And I think those are all good issues that we ought to think about. Yeah.