A couple interesting stories from today’s news:
- From South Carolina, a group of alumni decide to create a nonprofit to fund a book about their school, as well as a scholarship program.
- Accountant sentenced for stealing from nonprofit.
A couple interesting stories from today’s news:
September 18, 2006 at 2:57 am
How do people steal from the disadvantaged or disabled? There has to be a certain amount of numbness, or maybe she never actually met anyone paralyzed so there was a disconnect. Was it just a little here and a little there? pocket change, not really thinking. so lacking in morals that a “little” stealing doesn’t even raise the conscience enough to send a warning signal?
September 27, 2006 at 3:02 am
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom makes the following observation in his landmark study, Descartes’ Baby (Basic Books, 2004, p. 100-01):
“Are you evil? I doubt it. Nobody sees himself as the bad guy. . . . In the real world, evildoers see themselves as good people doing good things or good people forced to do difficult things because of special circumstances, or, at worst, good people who are forced, tricked, or goaded into doing bad things, against the grain of their fine characters.”
Paradoxically, our innate moral sense also plays a central role in our immoral acts.