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Originally posted by TLAW
Forgive my cynicism. Integrity, as we know it, is almost non-existent. Just look around, and see what is happening. People knowingly and flagrantly cheat, marital infidelity is almost expected, and even relatives may pull a fast one on ya to make a quick buck.
Call me stupid, but let me take a poll: how many people would find a million bucks, and diligently find the owner? More importantly (think about this), who would do the same for a dollar?
Hmmmmmmm.......
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You know what as I was driving to class I thought about how my question is stupid.
Of course our society has a lack of integrity. . . This country is founded on the blood of African slave labor, the land was stolen from Native Americans, etc. This is the country where WHITE MEN raped over and over BLACK women to continue to enslave their children and deny them the "inalienable rights." This is the same country that dehumanized Blacks for centuries.
Not just whites have compromised their integrity. We compromise our integrity everyday. For instance, when we should be working but instead we are on the phone or on the Internet.
For the record TLaw I would try to find the owner of the million dollars but no if I find a dollar pick it up, all day long I'll have good luck (remix) unless the owner is still in the vicinity.
I think that this article shows an instance of how a school system compromised its integrity to appease students and parents and lost a teacher in the process. Now that teacher will be a little jaded about her profession and the kids will continue, for the most part, to cheat.