【答案解析】Topic: Fraudulence in business
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The pros
We can immediately link business and money to dishonesty, greed, and sin. / Many people believe that the end justifies the means and it is greed that motivates individuals and entire businesses to succeed. / We live in a time when the winners are getting ever more lavish rewards and the incentives to get to the top are greater than they"ve ever been before. / There"s more to gain if you are successful in business. / We are living in an age of the "cheating culture" whereby everybody cheats because everyone else does it. / The cheating culture is not just a capitalistic phenomenon and that attitudinal differences are driven by gender, country corruption, and socioeconomic environment. / You have to bend the rules, engage in dishonest activities, and play dirty to succeed in business when everybody else is doing the same. / An honest person cannot succeed in the brutal business arena and such a person will get stuck on the rungs of the ladder to success at the first inevitable call to dishonesty. / Business success is such a powerful goal that one can be easily tempted to do "whatever it takes" to succeed. / There"s more to lose if you fail. / The penalties for failure, or for simply being ordinary, have grown. / It"s harder and harder to maintain a decent standard of living. / The lack of serious consequences and lax enforcement for violations in business world has made it easier to cheat in business. / It is accepted as a normal part of business life. / Behavior once considered cheating is no longer thought to be so.
The cons
Honesty is the best policy. / Successful businesses are profoundly dependent on confidence and a good reputation. / Not only can a man be honest and grow rich, but it is almost impossible for a man to grow rich unless he is honest. / The principal of profitability with honesty and integrity was and is a viable thought. / To be dishonest is to deny reality, to be impatient, to look for shortcuts, to seek instant gratification, and eventually to be self-destructive. / To be dishonesty means we seek to serve only our interests, with little regard to anyone else"s welfare. / Dishonesty can prevent you from acting with objectivity and foresight. Dishonest thinking clouds your judgment and may lead to bad decisions. If you are not an amoral person, lying or stealing can create feelings of guilt leading to self-destructive behavior. If you want to succeed, why bet against yourself?. Dishonest business owners usually fail; after a while, they run out of customers, suppliers, creditors, and even employees. / If you attempt to fudge your books, gouge a customer a little, or cheat a vendor, you are sending a strong message to your employees or associates that you accept such behavior. It is an invitation to steal from you. If your employees know that you demand honesty, they will respect you for it. By doing so, you will find dishonest workers will not hang around. An honest environment will make them uncomfortable. / Although the path to business success for some may be littered with cheating, lying, gossiping, and plain old corruption, we all must know that those who achieve success through this route are not, in the long run, honorable or happy. / No matter how deeply one buries one"s conscience, the voice of morality, which is intrinsically embedded in all of us, will be heard.