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Posted by Kahdoosch on October 15, 2006, 1:13 am We've all heard the, "it's nothing personal but business is business", line. It allows individuals and corporations to behave in a fashion that breaches the morality of the wider society yet justifies those actions with a veneer of respectability. No-one would suggest that a businessman, by default, must be prepared to seriously stiff anybody for a percentage. What it does in effect is set up a society with two conflicting ethical codes. We would expect these codes to remain within their own boundaries but what happens when the more agressive of the two leaks into the other? The double standard, where honesty is seen as naivity, devious dishonesty becomes 'smart'. The double standard becomes an artform and the general public absorb this through the media to the point where they don't realise that they are operating two sets of moral codes. Brido says in another thread that he considers the US to have become a schizophrenic nation. It's arguable that the way the US sees itself reflected in it's own various media is at odds with how it actually is. That the media portraits a desired morality whilst the practise is quite diferent. Equally, it's arguable that the rest of the world sees the US through a distorted lens which doesn't accurately tell us how the country really is. Other western countries must be heading in the same direction since the US has such a strong influence through it's exported media and it's political exposure. Does anyone feel that their own country is becoming schizophrenic, given that it is possible to do so?
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