Architects should care about ethics, but architecture has an unusual relationship to ethics. Ethics are about obligation and duty, which covers a great deal of what any professional does in service to society; and, in the case of building, ethics poses pressing questions such as, "Will the buildings stand?" or "Will they be healthy for their inhabitants?" So there's a high ethical standard attached to what architects do in regard to building. However, there is a great difference between the science of building and the art of architecture, and perhaps an even greater difference between building's profound duty to ethics and art's complete freedom from ethics.
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