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Ethical issues in technical writing arise when your employer or client
wants you to put things in documents that you know are false, like
safety certifications for products you know haven't had their safety
evaluated, or to leave out critical items like hazard warnings.
Worrying about about questions of correct grammar vs jargon in
noncritical verbiage that doesn't impact actual usage may be a little
bit pedantic, but being a little bit pedantic is one of the things
technical writers are paid to do. Being VERY pedantic and conflating
pedantic matters with "ethics" is one reason why many people regard
technical writers as crybabies.
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