In both instances, the report said, senior managers were spared firings or harsh disciplining for acts of wrongdoing and appeared to receive "favorable treatment".
Mr. Huang's rise, Mr. Wu said, may also have epitomized the corporate style in modern China, where seeking political favor and protection are sometimes viewed more as sharp business tactics than as acts of wrongdoing.
The notion of karma, as it is popularly and wrongly understood (as in, you get what you deserve) is an imposition of meaning, but tempting for those who are sensitive to their own acts of wrongdoing.
The rabbis stated that one good deed leads to another, and that with one act of wrongdoing, another inevitably follows.
Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 of misusing his powers as governor in an array of wrongdoing.
In a similar study by Adeleye among researchers from the same country, a high proportion of the respondents (54.6%) also admitted to having committed at least one act of research wrongdoing [ 8].
Exposés have been so successful that in 2011 the practice came under widespread attack in the form of numerous states' proposed anti-whistleblower legislation, referred to as "Ag Gag" bills, which criminalize the act of videotaping acts of cruelty and wrongdoing in animal and other agricultural facilities.
Public persons, Aquinas thinks, can rightfully intend to kill in carrying out needful acts of war, suppression of serious wrongdoing, and punishment (see also 6.3 below).
