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[tim]

"Attempting to improve corporate ethics is probably hopeless as well.... The reason is simple: moral self-selection. In the United States, people are free to choose whatever careers they want. Those who care little about money become soldiers, teachers, artists, and librarians. Those who desire personal wealth are drawn to business. As a result, our large corporations are staffed almost entirely by people who are more vulnerable to the lure of money, and potentially more at risk of committing fraud to achieve it, than ordinary Americans." -- John Kroger, Convictions

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[tim]

I'm glad people are doing work like what your client was doing, and I hope it works out well, but I think in any profession, there are always going to be moral dilemmas where it's simply not in your direct interest to do what's right, even if some situations in which the two appear to be in conflict really aren't.