Posted by curious_couple1 at 3:06AM, 6/Mar/10.
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Hopefully it isn't in bad taste, making reference to another dating website on FF. If so, Oods, please feel free to remove this post.
For those who don't know, Ashley Madison is a dating website that is targeted at married couples seeking partners with whom to have 'extra-marital relations'. The tag line for the site is, "Life is short. Have an affair." It is a for-profit privately run company.
As you might imagine, this has been a controversial concept amongst the general public. AM has been ostracized based on the moral judgements of a range of media.
So, I'm looking for opinions here. Is Ashley Madison fundamentally immoral?
I will supply my personal views, tentitively, hopefully not as fuel for abuse.
In my eyes, the business concept for Ashley Madison is entirely justified by the success of the business itself (AM now claims to have over 1 million members). The fact that there is a clear market for this validates the existence of a service for this market. By this reasoning, the moral issues surrounding the idea of cheating should be levelled at the consumer, not the company.
Please note: this is NOT a debate on the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of cheating, it is regarding whether Ashley Madison has violated social or moral responsibilities by promoting cheating.
Please comment with your views! :)