Cion, on 27 May 2015 - 07:42 PM, said:
Priorities not set straight. That's putting personal temporary satisfaction over loss of integrity.
Any dishonest act has 3 components
1: opportunity (cheats exist)
2: pressure from others or personal)
3: rationalization. This is when you "convince" yourself that what you are doing is "ok" because [insert lame excuse]
1 and 2 are always present. It's number three that make people cross that line.
I read a few article about cheating and in one of them all had strong moral value when it came to judge others but when it came to themselves they were more lenient, the impact was not felt as important in their case. These were lab social experiments(dont remember the name given to these) and not executed in literal situation we live everyday(gaming sports jobs etc), essentially they exposed that at our base, as human being, it make sense to cheat to survive. I can reason why someone would cheat to get a 20million contract or a good job, but i still don't get how someone would take part in a recreational activity without meaningful rewards/outcome with friends and cheat them. Maybe it's stupid simple, maybe it's just that there will always be people with no moral values.
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