December 2006 By Robert Shoup
In my last column, I discussed how ethical behavior is based to some degree on our personal sense of values as well as the accepted societal standards of behavior, both our community at large and our professional society. In that every person's values are somewhat different, there are behaviors that some individuals would consider ethical that others would consider unethical. Moreover, certain behaviors are considered ethical under one set of circumstances and unethical under different circumstances. We consider it ethical to lie about the existence of Santa but unethical to lie about cutting down a cherry tree.
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