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I remember when deceit was considered wrong -- without qualification. Now nothing is "wrong" unless it is illegal AND you get caught.
by tanseydavid 4y ago
I remember when deceit was considered wrong -- without qualification.
Now nothing is "wrong" unless it is illegal AND you get caught.
- kodyo 4y agoWhen was that, exactly?
- happytoexplain 4y agoI have the same perception of a change - not something as simple as it going from "not OK" to "OK", but definitely a change. It's not that surprising if we also accept that division and bitterness have significantly increased over the past decade or two, since resorting to political deception more often and more dramatically would also reasonably increase in such an environment.
- drewcoo 4y agoWell, as one example, our current POTUS is Joe Biden. His run for that same office back in the 80s was stopped because at the time his serial plagairism was considered shameful. That was wrong, but not illegal. We have much looser standards today. We don't seem to care about right and wrong so much as any means to defeat the (slightly) greater evil of a (narrowly) more repugnant candidate. So that was sometime between the 80s and today?
- jimhefferon 4y agoThank you for saying that telling the truth is a good thing, and not telling the truth is bad.