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> do not claim to, act morally better than others

They do however claim a better understanding of ethics. So unless she's been saying, "Gosh, I knew it was wrong but did it anyway," then it looks like the contrast between her professional expertise and her behavior would still qualify as ironic. As would her role teaching law and ethics when contrasted with both SBF's behavior and his many, many shady statements.

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You could easily make the other argument: As a professor of ethics she studies many different ethical systems, including ones that are not mainstream. This means that she can more easily find some ethical system under which a given action is considered ethical.

The "ethics expert = more ethical" connection has never held up and mainly serves as a gotcha.

It's a good thing I never claimed "ethics expert = more ethical", then. What I'm saying is that I agree there's an irony here.

It's true that, as you say, she could use her knowledge of ethics to be less ethical. But that would just be a different kind of irony for somebody who teaches on law and ethics.

It’s not ironic if a mechanic is a bad race-car driver

She’s saying neither "I knew it was wrong but did it anyway“ nor “I didn’t know it was wrong” but rather “It wasn’t wrong”.

Then that too would be ironic.

Why?

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