Originally Posted by Uncle Erik
If you want to get legal about it, the MOT deal is a lot more like a conflict of interest. You know, where a judge isn't supposed to hear a case where he or she has a financial interest in a party. Or an attorney who has a personal stake in the outcome of a case.
Those are unethical practices.
Another unethical practice is selling things to people without telling them that you have a financial interest in that company.
I agree with everything you have just said. But does participation in a referral program as a consumer on a sporadic and isolated basis qualifies one to be categorized as MoT? - that's the question I have attempted to answer in the prior post.
One final note: the ethical standards imposed on legal professionals is much higher than that of an average lay consumer; therefore the learned legal professional shouldn't hold a lay person to the same high ethical standards
