> For a long, long time, I felt like a whiny teenager, being pissed at my parents. As I get older (I'm 45 ish), the more I feel like my disgust at the folks who

> For a long, long time, I felt like a whiny teenager, being pissed at my parents. As I get older (I'm 45 ish), the more I feel like my disgust at the folks who run these things is an actual ethical stance. Same. They say that you get more conservative with age, but instead I've found that it has only got easier to hold the same principles I think I've always held. Lately it seems like people have stopped trying to sugar coat their shitty immoral ideas, and now it's really easy to see when someone is motivated by greed or hatred or is just an all around bad person. They used to dress these ideas up as "pragmatism" or "fiscal responsibility" and then you'd have to debate them and second guess yourself. But now they pretty much just tell you that they have no principles. It doesn't even have to be political... You wouldn't believe how casually people will suggest doing immoral things at work: cutting corners (and lying about it), lying to customers, lying to coworkers, hiding things that make the company look bad (even if people could get hurt as a result), or even committing outright fraud. It boggles the mind.