The Judgment of Solomon
When faced with an ethical dilemma about a design, making half a decision just doesn't cut it.
On Monday, we posed a situation in which a designer was trapped between fulfilling a client imperative ("help us sell more of this drug") and an ethical imperative (to let readers know about the risks associated with that drug). Most of us, when faced with that situation, will intuitively want to advocate for a middle road.
Middle roads, while famously intuitively satisfying (at least to people like us, reared on the indisputability of certain democratic ideals), rarely turn out as well as we expect them to.
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