Give the ways we avoid facing ethical dilemmas


Give it a different label:

Copyright infringement vs. peer-to-peer file sharing
Smoothing earnings vs. cooking the books
Lying vs. earnings management

Rationalizations:

(1) Everybody else does it
(2) If we don't do it, someone else will
(3) That's the way it has always been done
(4) We'll wait until the lawyers tell us it's wrong
(5) It doesn't really hurt anyone
(6) The system is unfair
(7) It's a gray area
(8) I was just following orders
(9) We all don't share the same ethics

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