Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who's saying running the home was/is the only option available to them to proceed ethically?
Different poster responding -- When someone earlier posed the question of what critics suggest Sidwell should have done different, the only response I recall reading was basically that Sidwell needs to become a business partner with Washington Home and start operating an alternate long-term case facility, presumably at a location and price-point the current tenants of WH approve. See pages 2-3 of this thread. That suggestion seems fairly ridiculous to me. Do you have other concrete suggestions about what steps you think the school should take?
Personally, I think the only people who are in any position to comment on the ethics of this situation are those in the Sidwell community. As the NYTimes piece indicated, the only reason the buyer might have any moral responsibility at all toward the seller's tenants is because of whatever ethical requirements are imposed by the school's Quaker beliefs. I'd find it pretty offensive if someone outside my faith's community started telling me what my faith requires, and I suspect Sidwell's community finds similarly offensive the running commentary of DCUM critics who have convince themselves they know better what Sidwell's ethics require than Sidwell itself does.
Consider for a moment how you would react if some anonymous critic told you you shouldn't be allowed to manage your own affairs, because that critic had decided you weren't operating consistent with his interpretation of your religious faith. In the context of another school discussion from these boards, are people here going to start investigating whether GDS has accounted for all the potential racial impacts of its campus consolidation, arguing that GDS's history of racial inclusiveness somehow now obligated GDS to be meet certain obligations? Not me. I consider each person's ethics to be his own responsibility, so while I might disagree with your ethical decisions or might make a different decision, I don't get to tell you what your ethical framework requires.
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