Ethics In Sports, Business and Life
When the management of the New England Patriots got caught stealing defensive signals, cheating jumped up on the radar for a few days. Though he liked to win a great deal, I don’t think Vince Lombardi would have done that sort of thing. His methods were much more visceral. Now, every academic with a grant to write is going to investigate cheating in every aspect of society. Big news people, it’s been done.
Seems that after great study academia has determined that people cheat because they believe their competition is doing it. Some professor from Yale suggest it of as a “defensive strategy.” So the defense for cheating is “Everyone else is doing it.” It sounds like a bunch of teenagers.
How about this. It’s crooked. People who cheat are dishonest. If you steal, you’re a thief, even if they pay you millions of dollars a year. If a guy would cheat in a game, what else would he do?
So, if someone steals from you or slanders you or lies to your customer or hurts your feelings, what are you going to do? How you react will determine the type of ethics you possess. We already know what type of ethics your competition possesses.
I’m not saying don’t fight back against dishonesty perpetrated against you. I’m saying that you have to think how to do it.
Last, but not least, I’v always thought dishonesty took more energy and effort than telling the truth. That’s why very good lies have a large amount of truth in them.
0 opinions for Ethics In Sports, Business and Life
No one has left a comment yet. You know what this means, right? You could be first!
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: