Perhaps too much is expected of academic drop-in-the-bucket interventions that apply a relatively few hours of symbolism towards a lifetime of ethical temptations and challenges.
This year's occurrence probably should not be surprising; in the competitive marketplace, the temptation to cut ethical corners can be hard to resist.
The country of culture, of the Renaissance, the Risorgimento and the resistance, he mused, a country which even achieved membership of the euro against all the odds is also a country devoid of ideals and ethical principles, prey to secessionist temptation, to conflicts of interest, and plagued by scandals.
A disembodied mind, the body is peripheral a source of desires for homo economicus to weigh and a distracting temptation for the Kantian ethical subject.
This was not inefficiency but an ethical practice that tempered the human temptation to take, take, and continue taking without sharing.
The CSR construct also permeates the business discourse beyond education and similarly needs to provide a moral counterweight to the competitive environment that can present numerous temptations to put aside ethical and legal obligations when the economic arguments are strong enough.
Similar to the utility of problem-based learning approaches elsewhere in medical education, the everyday challenges of hierarchy, temptation of all kinds, the myriad of ethical and communication dilemmas inherent in an imprecise, uncertain, and often high stakes profession all provide endless opportunities for explicit inquiry, exploration, reflection and discussion.
Kirchick criticises me for failing freelancers, advising me that I would do "more of a service to freelancers if" I hosted "serious discussion about the ethical traps of conflict reporting," which he feels includes "the temptation to make stuff up".
While what is legal and what is ethical often overlap, in compelling cases, there's a strong temptation to set a precedent that can become problematic when enshrined in laws applying to everyone and every case.
As with many Nixon associates, his cleverness was not in doubt: but an ethical upbringing in mid-century corporate America had not taught him what to do when the temptation to cheat was on offer.
