here is the question then, if the opposing was true, would it be any more ethical...
it is like saying if you had the power to control one's mind would you do it, and would it be ethical to do so...
or as the case may be if you could use mass media to cause a minority group to seperate from their country should you, and is it ethical...
the answer really is no to all of these, it isn't ethical and you shouldn't do it... however it doesn't mean that if one had the power to do these things they would not do it, and in some cases, just because they could....
power makes people do things that they "shouldn't do..."
Fear makes people do things they "shouldn't do"...
heck Love makes people do things they "shouldn't do"...
really it would depend on someone's morals and what the exceptions to those morals are whether it's something they would do in a given situation or not... and really there are times Personal Morals be damned they'll do it anyway because they think they HAVE to.
Really Human morality is a very fluid thing and varies quite a bit from culture to culture and time period to time period....
Personal morality similarly is very fluid and varies from instance to instance because humans are thinking beings, and nothing is truly set in stone.... after all a person says he'll never hurt an animal would change their mind very quickly if they were starving....
The world isn't black and white and to beleave it is, is a childs perspective...
Which is one reason laws have variety to them...
Someone might say they will never do something, but you better pray that you would never be put into the position where you were forced to choose whether or not to do it.... especially if not to do it meant death.