On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 05:56 -0800, Matthew Brown wrote:
On Dec 2, 2007 5:39 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
Perhaps it's worth all of us remembering that it's easiest to make bad choices when we're convinced we're on the side of right.
Indeed. This is especially enlightening with our recent case with Durova, and (from a quick glance) that of [[WP:RFAR#Matthew_Hoffman]] as linked to by Charles.
KTC