If we say, 'others are doing wrong; therefore I must do the same in order to compete', then we always will do wrong because there always will be people like tha

If we say, 'others are doing wrong; therefore I must do the same in order to compete', then we always will do wrong because there always will be people like that out there. If we say 'this system can be gamed by people willing to do bad things, therefore I must do them or I'm at a disadvantage', then we always will do bad things - every system is vulnerable.