--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > paying off > > > > > > the Spanish officials to get him out. > > > > > > > > > > Par for the course during that time. Why do you think it > > > > > was so easy to pay off the Spanish officials? It was the > > > > > common thing to do. > > > > > > > > I think that the point about questionable ethics > > > > and how pervasive they were in the TMO and how > > > > well the TBs learned them is made, thank you... > > > > > > You were involved in transporting money in and out of Spain > > > during that time? > > > > I thought I made it clear that I was *not* involved > > with smuggling cash for the TM movement. My comment > > was about your statement, "It was the common thing > > to do." When a person is reduced to using that argu- > > ment, the question of whether they have ethics or not > > is pretty much settled. > > Just to clarify, this isn't a statement about you per se > but about the nature of ethics. IMO, unethical behavior > is almost *defined* by the use of "It's just how things > are done," or "Everybody does it" or "They do it, too." > Ethics are about doing the right thing no matter what > anyone else does. >
Heh. But if everyone else does it, is it "unethical," by definition? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
