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Crises must and can be resolved in moral ways.
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3 |
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There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business – or in the game of life.
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52 |
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Following one’s moral compass is for neither the faint of heart nor the cold of feet.
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76 |
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Inside… identity-merged groups, unity trumps truth… deception that strengthens a ‘we’-group is viewed by members as morally superior to truth-telling that weakens their group.
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370 |
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The higher the stakes – emotional, financial, moral – the greater the difficulty.
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002 |
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The first steps along the path are morally ambiguous, and the right decision is not always clear. We make an early, apparently inconsequential decision, and then we justify it to reduce the ambiguity of the choice.
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048 |
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The pain of living with horrors we have committed but cannot morally accept is searing, which is why most people will reach for any justification available to assuage the dissonance.
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268 |
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Ethical fading is a condition in a culture that allows people to act in unethical ways in order to advance their own interests, often at the expense of others, while falsely believing that they have not compromised their own moral principles.
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132 |
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Anyone, regardless of their personal moral compass, can succumb to [ethical fading].
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145 |
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…not only is the social value of work usually in inverse proportion to its economic value (the more one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it), but many people have come to accept this situation as morally right…
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