I bet it says if you are unethical in one part of your life you are unethical in all parts of your life. I don't agree. Let's say Jesus got a blow job from Mary Madeline in a moment of weakness. Does that negate everything cool he did?
Jimmy - that’s not at all what she’s saying. She is saying that doing one bad thing and rationalizing to yourself that it wasn’t really that bad etc. means you are much more likely to do other bad stuff (and probably rationalize that stuff too). It doesn’t say anything about negating any good dead’s you may have also done.
You have to admit she, and the scientists, are most likely correct in that hypothesis.
“Science”, yeah right. No control of the independent variable (cheating motivation), an ungeneralizable test population (guys who actually sign up to Ashley Madison are extra-thirsty or more uncommitted than Joe Married), and the conclusion is that people reduce cognitive dissonance by lying to themselves (known says MM blew Jesus)? So glad my tax dollars funded this shame to academia. UMass Boston should be ashamed that this bears their name.
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