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by leon on December 12, 2007
Worrying Deloitte survey suggests that teenagers claim they are ethical but are still prepared to lie and cheat to get ahead.
While most teens surveyed (71 percent) said they felt fully prepared to make ethical decisions when they entered the workforce, about four out of 10 (38 percent) said it was sometimes necessary to cheat, plagiarize, lie or even behave violently in order to succeed. Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of all teens surveyed said cheating on a test was acceptable on some level, and more than half (54 percent) said their personal desire to succeed was a good reason to bend the rules.
The fifth annual Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey suggests that pressure at school is creating a lot of these moral blind spots. But it might also say something about today's values.
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