Zinging the Rationalizations for Unethical Behavior
People can be very creative when seeking to rationalize the unethical.
Before exploring the upscale subject of unethical rationalizations, let’s consider a lesson from the late, great, and wildly eccentric governor of Louisiana, Earl Long.
In 1959, journalist A.J. Liebling covered Long’s colorful political campaign. The result was Liebling’s highly entertaining book, The Earl of Louisiana, which has to be one of the greates…