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Cheating

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A lot of good work here for just about everyone. Expands on modern day philosophies.

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This is a useful survey of practical ethics, tied to psychological experiments measuring how and under what circumstances people will lie on their taxes, cheat on exams, steal from their employers or have affairs. It shouldn't be a great surprise that when people feel a task or assignment is busy work, or that the end result overwhelms the process, they take shortcuts, or that being treated at the outset with suspicions and surveillance makes people resentful and they steal out of spite, or that we can talk ourselves into rationalizing just about anything.

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