Submission + - Is Profiting Off of Massacres Okay?
jbash writes: "I have an ethical issue. It seems people are registering domain names like vashootings.com and vatechshootings.com. (Warning: DO NOT click those ads, since they are pay-per-click ads paid to the domain name owners!)
Google and Godaddy for their parts are making money off of those domain names too, not just the nice folks who registered them.
Is it wrong of me to think that this is just not right? That something has to be done about this, such as contacting the advertisers? (It was advertisers who got Imus removed, after all.) Or is it none of anyone's business how someone makes his money? And, on the other hand, if domain parking at something like vashootings.com in order to sell ads is unethical, then is it ethical to make documentaries or write books about tragedies? Is that not also making a profit off of suffering?"
Is it wrong of me to think that this is just not right? That something has to be done about this, such as contacting the advertisers? (It was advertisers who got Imus removed, after all.) Or is it none of anyone's business how someone makes his money? And, on the other hand, if domain parking at something like vashootings.com in order to sell ads is unethical, then is it ethical to make documentaries or write books about tragedies? Is that not also making a profit off of suffering?"