I don’t recall any past controversy offhand, but given that business in general and many specific categories of business in particular are highly politicized, I suspect the answers you’d get would be more revealing of your respondents’ politics (read: boring) than of the underlying ethics. For the same reason I’d expect it to be more contentious than average once we start getting into details.
There are also PR issues with thought experiments that could be construed as advocating crime, although that’s more an issue with my reframing than with your original question. There’s no actual policy, though; there is policy against advocating violence, but this doesn’t qualify.
I don’t recall any past controversy offhand, but given that business in general and many specific categories of business in particular are highly politicized, I suspect the answers you’d get would be more revealing of your respondents’ politics (read: boring) than of the underlying ethics. For the same reason I’d expect it to be more contentious than average once we start getting into details.
There are also PR issues with thought experiments that could be construed as advocating crime, although that’s more an issue with my reframing than with your original question. There’s no actual policy, though; there is policy against advocating violence, but this doesn’t qualify.