Permissions

Asking permission is a required protocol of a civilized system. Forcing a client to pay for something they do not want or need crosses a boundary that can be the seed of resentment, conflict and retaliation. It can be highly profitable for a business to simply do what they want to do without asking permission, but this is a tactic that certainly diminishes the reputation of the business and impairs it from ever realizing its full potential as a business because of reactions in the community. It is common for business people to take the approach that "it is easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission." In practice, with time, this approach tends to be self-serving, predatory and insensitive. People get hurt, they are overcharged, and abused in many ways. Fundamentally asking permission is a boundary problem. As with boundary issues the IP or Initial Point of Conflicts arise when their is a boundary violation. Moreover, violating boundaries is highly unprofessional as evidenced in the practices of "rough trade" businesses. The unauthorized crossing of boundaries violates a person's autonomy and right to decide for themselves. This is called coercion and it is a highly unethical business practice. In criminal system players simply take what they want without consideration for the people they are dealing with. They do it believing they can always get away with it. So, a business must question which way they are going. Are they simply going to exploit people or be socially responsible and respect boundaries. An aggressive business person might not think what they are doing is a crime, but it has attributes of crime, and at the very least it can be unauthorized taking.

Customary moral practices bestow a degree of freedom on business people to push their clients around in the pursuit of profits. And, people expect it to a certain degree. But, there are limits to this sort of thing. The idea of building a civilization is to work on problem areas of human conduct like this and refine the ethics and protocols of asking permission.

• Overpowering the Client
• Taking Liberties
• Autonomy
• Darwinian Ethics
• Protocols
• Civilizing Process
• Overreaching
• Boundary Issues
• IP Initial Point of Conflict
• Blowback
• Fatiguing the Client
• Unauthorized Taking

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