[Fmpro] ethical considerations

[Fernando Rivas]

The only work I would turn down is anything connected with cigarettes or
liquor.  I don't judge people who use the products, since I myself was once
an avid user but I just don't see promoting them.  I suppose that by playing
in clubs I'm already promoting the use of liquor but that's not as bad as
the mind-swaying games of advertising.
Porn is fantasy fodder, no different than Hollywood films.  It too can be
addictive for some people but it would be so with or without the music which
is not there to convince but to enhance. As to the people who make porn, on
and off screen - they are oversexed people who have found a way to make
money from their appetites.  The myth of so-called poor defenseless girls
caught up in a web of deception is absurd in the video world - those people
sell themselves no differently than anyone else in a capitalist system - for
their marketable talents.


On 10/26/06 3:58 PM, "Les Mizzell" <lesmizz at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 
>>> The only work I've ever turned down was as an Engineer in the 80s.
> 
> So, if asked, would any of you write music for an x-rated film?
> Would there be a break-point price that would change your mind?
> How about under an assumed name? (I've considered this, but so far, nope!)
> 
> Just wondering!
> 
> To date, I've turned down coding several erotic web sites. Each probably
> would have paid more than most any other web project I'd taken on
> recently, but I just couldn't bring myself to do them, especially after
> I started thinking about what would happen if the parents of any of the
> young dancers my wife teaches ever found out!
> 
> Just wasn't worth it!
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