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Megan McArdle on Ethics

If you're going to lie and cheat people, don't put it in e-mail.  Or as one great criminal said: "Never write when you can speak, never speak when you can nod, never nod when you can wink."McArdle's view is very common - and is one reason Western Civilization is collapsing.  It doesn't occur to people that if you're afraid of putting something in writing, then you shouldn't do that something you're afraid of putting in writing.When people refuse to put things in writing, they are suspect.  Why are they afraid of someone reading this?  Ethics is simple stuff. If you don't want other people to know about something, then don't do it.I put everything in writing.  I save every e-mail.  Why?  Because I'm not a scum bag.  If I make a mistake, it will be an honest mistake...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).