NYT Ethicists Square Off In Battle Of Ethic Proportions

Jeffrey Seglin, a Boston-based columnist who writes “The Right Thing,” a weekly syndicated newspaper column on ethics for the New York Times Syndicate, recently weighed in on a controversy involving strategic Democratic documents found by a Republican in a copy machine in a Madison, Wisconsin political battle. The question: Were the documents fair game? Seglin:

From an ethical standpoint, where a document is found does not matter. If it was clearly marked, the person who found it knew that its contents were confidential and belonged to someone else.