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Anything to Get Ahead: How Cheating is Becoming a Standard Practice

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Cheating can be found everywhere these days. Whether in school, sports, business, politics or taxes, cheating it seems, is as much a part of our culture as baseball or apple pie. But it's not just in our culture that cheating abounds. Around the world, the practice appears to be reaching epidemic levels.

But what exactly constitutes cheating? And why, if we can all agree that it's wrong, do so many of us engage in it? Have we reached a point where not cheating unfairly subjects us to a disadvantage our less honest peers get to avoid? It's a truly disheartening prospect; that in order simply to keep our competitive heads above water we must resort to such practices.

And it's not just the wayward individual that cheats anymore. Recent times have exposed a dramatic rise in institutional cheating as well-- cases in which bad behavior becomes standard practice for professionals presiding over both boardrooms and classrooms alike.

This hour we'll take an honest stab at understanding our dishonest ways and ask if anything can be done to put us back on the track of behavioral integrity.

Please leave comments below, email us at Colin@wnpr.org, or tweet us @wnprcolin.

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Colin McEnroe and Betsy Kaplan contributed to this show.

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