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TED Talk: Buggy Moral Code
"How much can I get away with without being hit by the consequences?" (Ariely, 2009)
A deep discussion ensued when I broached this topic with my peers, as individuals justify cheating depending on the context. If our type of person does a particular thing, we would also tend to engage in it. Here's where the concept of morality becomes effective. Ariely associates this with cheating on God's divine law (the Ten Commandments). The moment one starts taking morals into consideration, one will become more unwilling to cheat. A student will definitely tend to cheat less if his/her professor establishes high academic integrity standards, as cheating breaks down his/her fudge factor. There will not be much room to justify why one cheats. On the whole, cheating consistently on smaller projects will ultimately build up till one has no qualms about cheating on examinations and other larger tasks (Yousif, 2013).
Ariely states that one has several intuitions in life -- but it is a fact that several of these will be incorrect. The issue is about whether they will be tested or not. The challenge with doing so was my main experience when I returned to speak with the nurses. If one considers all of one's intuitions,...
One thinks one's instincts are correct -- agreeing to conduct a tough experiment in order to test the correctness of one's intuition is extremely difficult. However, sadly, all of us are perpetually facing the very same situation. One has highly strong instincts with regard to several things -- one's personal abilities, the way the economy functions, what salaries school teachers ought to receive, etc. However, one cannot improve unless one begins questioning and testing these instincts (Ariely, 2009). What I'm referring to here is the instinct to maintain one's usual sense of freedom, control and individuality. This surfaces when one really needs to, or could benefit from, sticking to the wisdom or guidance provided by some tradition or individual. Following involves banking on, trusting, obeying, having confidence in, etc. And this isn't solely about sticking to something. Rather, it deals with a challenging circumstance that one simply cannot ease one's way through. The circumstance is of an unknown, indeterminate, uncomfortable nature (something that doesn't have a certain, formulaic outcome, whether bad or good), a rare situation or one that an individual avoids and, unconsciously, doesn't…
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Ariely, D. (2009, February). Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code. Retrieved from TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code?language=en#t-8559
Dokodemo. (2011, August 11). Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code (TED Talk). Retrieved from da2el.wordpress: https://da2el.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/dan-ariely-on-our-buggy-moral-code-ted-talk-2/
Yousif, J. (2013, February 18). Dan Ariely, "Our Buggy Moral Code." Retrieved from UMICH: http://www.umich.edu/~hcouncil/home/In_The_News/Entries/2013/2/18_The_Ted_Talk_titled_Our_Buggy_Moral_Code%2C_given_by_Dan_Ariely_provides_the_hidden_reasons_that_several_of_people_think_it_is_the_norm_to_cheat._He_begins_by_relating_cheating_to_economics
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