What has the world become into? “A charlatan” is the answer to this question. Cheating is now seen as a way to succeed, and upcoming generations are now learning this immoral principle (Willis 1). What many people have not been able to notice is that cheating one’s way to happiness always brings negative consequences. Conflicts arise at a scene of cheating. An example of this is the Atlanta cheating scandal. The case was taken to court charging thirty-five individuals for inflating student’s test scores (Paulson 1). The superintendent Beverly Hall denied any knowledge of the actions although a prosecutor told jurors that the superintendent tried to cover up the scheme (Paulson 1). “The coverup,” as Mackay would say, “is always worse”
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Society has established the code of ethics for professional conduct, but obviously many do not go along with this practice. CFO Magazine conducted a survey on financial executives and twenty percent of them said that they feel more pressure since 2001 to make results appear more favorable (CFO Magazine). If favorable results are what executives feel being asked of them then exact results are not so important anymore. Researchers have studied in depth differences between business and leadership students in terms of their attitudes towards academic dishonesty. No matter the results, both sides show actions of fraud. In 2008, ten percent of the graduating class of Duke University was caught cheating on a final exam (Simkin &McLeod). The world pulls in these graduating matriculates but if the scholars are pulling fake impressions, what does the world truly hold. The nation’s top business schools were surveyed, and matriculates said that they do not believe that most companies are run honestly or ethically (Woods). “Why would students believe this?” is a question that can clearly be answered. Majority of people today don’t run their lives as morally as it should be because they have lived with cheating on their side for many years before, and therefore the consequence is distrust running as a domino effect. Research firm, Inferential Focus, compared the lives of this existing time as the “gaming” of everything (Inferential Focus). “We noted that everything in real life - dating, finding a job, personal appearances, business, markets, consumers - was becoming a candidate to be ‘gamed’ (Inferential Focus). In understandable words, Inferential Focus meant that America’s passion in competition in games has exceeded its normal bounds. The result of this phenomenon is that more aspects of civilization are being treated as a game to be won rather than a life to be lived (Mackay 3A 1/2).
Society has established the code of ethics for professional conduct, but obviously many do not go along with this practice. CFO Magazine conducted a survey on financial executives and twenty percent of them said that they feel more pressure since 2001 to make results appear more favorable (CFO Magazine). If favorable results are what executives feel being asked of them then exact results are not so important anymore. Researchers have studied in depth differences between business and leadership students in terms of their attitudes towards academic dishonesty. No matter the results, both sides show actions of fraud. In 2008, ten percent of the graduating class of Duke University was caught cheating on a final exam (Simkin &McLeod). The world pulls in these graduating matriculates but if the scholars are pulling fake impressions, what does the world truly hold. The nation’s top business schools were surveyed, and matriculates said that they do not believe that most companies are run honestly or ethically (Woods). “Why would students believe this?” is a question that can clearly be answered. Majority of people today don’t run their lives as morally as it should be because they have lived with cheating on their side for many years before, and therefore the consequence is distrust running as a domino effect. Research firm, Inferential Focus, compared the lives of this existing time as the “gaming” of everything (Inferential Focus). “We noted that everything in real life - dating, finding a job, personal appearances, business, markets, consumers - was becoming a candidate to be ‘gamed’ (Inferential Focus). In understandable words, Inferential Focus meant that America’s passion in competition in games has exceeded its normal bounds. The result of this phenomenon is that more aspects of civilization are being treated as a game to be won rather than a life to be lived (Mackay 3A 1/2).